"nerve-wrack" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1919, The Cosmopolitan - Volume 68, page 159:",
          "text": "Dull and heavy, but with his headache and nerve-wrack gone. Billy sauntered out into the street.",
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          "ref": "1926, Thomas L. Tudor, The High Peak to Sherwood: The Hills and Dales of Old Mercia:",
          "text": "It lies just where it can be of most service to our workaday world in short spells of rest from the nerve-wrack of the week, though that is not to say that there are not innumerable retreats amid hills, dales and woodlands where those in need of rest and healing may linger and \"fleet the time carelessly as they did in the golden world.\"",
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          "ref": "1928, Architect and Engineer - Volumes 94-95, page 125:",
          "text": "Where too often a suburban street may suggest the opening pageant of a mask ball, here is something picturesque without motley, interesting without nerve-wrack.",
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        "Alternative form of nerve rack"
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          "text": "It lies just where it can be of most service to our workaday world in short spells of rest from the nerve-wrack of the week, though that is not to say that there are not innumerable retreats amid hills, dales and woodlands where those in need of rest and healing may linger and \"fleet the time carelessly as they did in the golden world.\"",
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