Definitions for nerve-wracking
nerve-wrack·ing

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1. nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, stressful, tryingadjective

   extremely irritating to the nerves

   "nerve-racking noise"; "the stressful days before a war"; "a trying day at the office"

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1. nerve-wrackingadjective

   Intensely distressing or irritating to the nerves.

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1. nerve-wracking

   Nerve-wracking refers to a situation, event or experience that causes significant stress, anxiety or unease, often involving intense pressure or difficulty. It generally pertains to situations that are mentally straining or emotionally distressing.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of nerve-wracking in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of nerve-wracking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of nerve-wracking in a Sentence

1. Ryder Wright:

   It’s pretty nerve-wracking sometimes, especially here the crowd is awesome, there’s no better feeling than the crowd here, sometimes it feels like there’s a little bit of pressure on you.

2. Thierry Chow:

   People born in the Rabbit year have to expect big changes health-wise, career-wise and relationship-wise. It could be a bit nerve-wracking, especially for those whose birth charts do n’t favor Water, but do remember it never is all bad. It may mean an opportunity to grow.

3. Corrie Moreau:

   It was nerve-wracking, because you want to protect as much of it as you can, taking the first steps and pulling off part of the abdomen was very stressful, but it was also kind of exhilarating to know that we might be able to address a question that has been unanswered for almost 100 years that can't be answered any other way.

4. Jackie Meador:

   It's kind of nerve-wracking, when I won the school bee and beat the fifth graders, I realized I might be good at it.

5. Jamie Lynn Spears:

   Last year was a big year of just me on the road, promoting my EP and doing that, and I kind of got away from the writing, the creating music process, which for the first five years before that I was always tuned in to writing, and really being connected to the process of that, and when I went back in to write, it was kind of nerve-wracking. It’s so bizarre, whenever you come back in. It’s a vulnerable process, and it was kind of nerve-wracking, but I feel like I’m getting back in the groove of it.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=nerve-wracking
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nerve-Wracking
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com