"nerve-wracking" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "1867, following earlier nerve-racking (1812).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more nerve-wracking",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most nerve-wracking",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "nerve-wracking (comparative more nerve-wracking, superlative most nerve-wracking)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1867 June 5, “Marriage Sermons and Serenades”, in The Guardian, page 172:",
          "text": "To thrust this grating, screeching, nerve wracking, heart-rending, worse than Pandemonial howling, upon such an occasion, is the climax of cruelty.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 June, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 368:",
          "text": "One could hardly commend any of these nerve-wracking exploits; [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of nerve-racking"
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(proscribed) Alternative form of nerve-racking"
      ],
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  "word": "nerve-wracking"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "1867, following earlier nerve-racking (1812).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more nerve-wracking",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most nerve-wracking",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1867 June 5, “Marriage Sermons and Serenades”, in The Guardian, page 172:",
          "text": "To thrust this grating, screeching, nerve wracking, heart-rending, worse than Pandemonial howling, upon such an occasion, is the climax of cruelty.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 June, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 368:",
          "text": "One could hardly commend any of these nerve-wracking exploits; [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of nerve-racking"
      ],
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          "nerve-racking#English"
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        "(proscribed) Alternative form of nerve-racking"
      ],
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  "word": "nerve-wracking"
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