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Meaning of nerve-wracked | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Examples

“Amateur traders get nerve-wracked, and tend to sell short of their predetermined exit points.”
“I dropped to my knees in the Saint Aquinas chapel every single night for two weeks straight and dialed the divine Dr. Phil for guidance, implicitly blaming him for my woes: You created my pitiful self-consciousness and nerve-wracked sexuality with your religious rules and prohibitions —do something about it!”
“With regard to the latter, she wrote of “the undeniable calmative value of the motion picture as a relaxation for nerve-wracked humanity."”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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