Meaning of nerve-wreck | Babel Free

Definitions

A person who is debilitated by stress.

Examples

“It stands not far under these circumstances from the lunatic asylum and leaves a memory of nerve-wreck, or even of cowardice, which does not minister to self-respect.”

“The result as we saw it was a terrible one, and we could fancy the nerve-wreck of Charles Baudelaire, before the bow snapped, from the ravaged picture before us.”

“Plunging deep in trauma and nerve-wreck after surviving a Nazi' shelling in one of the felled London streets.”

“Behold the triumph of hypnotic mystification by the might of which the vacuous become profound and the flabby-willed nerve-wreck a heroine of dauntless faith!”

“It wouldn't happen again, for not one in a hundred of your Squadron-Leaders is a nerve-wreck.”

“He was a nerve-wreck.”

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