"nerve-wreck" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1908, The Lancet, page 410",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, Martin Birnbaum, Oscar Wilde: Fragments and Memories, page 15",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Achife Francis, The Priest: Nil, page 1",
          "text": "Plunging deep in trauma and nerve-wreck after surviving a Nazi' shelling in one of the felled London streets.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of nerve rack"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911, The Literary Digest - Volume 42, page 684",
          "text": "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!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Harford Montgomery Hyde, Solitary in the ranks: Lawrence of Arabia as airman and private soldier",
          "text": "It wouldn't happen again, for not one in a hundred of your Squadron-Leaders is a nerve-wreck.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Anwar Sadat, Raphael Israeli, The public diary of President Sadat - Volume 3, page 1041",
          "text": "He was a nerve-wreck.",
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        }
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        "A person who is debilitated by stress."
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    }
  ],
  "word": "nerve-wreck"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1908, The Lancet, page 410",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, Martin Birnbaum, Oscar Wilde: Fragments and Memories, page 15",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Achife Francis, The Priest: Nil, page 1",
          "text": "Plunging deep in trauma and nerve-wreck after surviving a Nazi' shelling in one of the felled London streets.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of nerve rack"
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          "ref": "1911, The Literary Digest - Volume 42, page 684",
          "text": "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!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Harford Montgomery Hyde, Solitary in the ranks: Lawrence of Arabia as airman and private soldier",
          "text": "It wouldn't happen again, for not one in a hundred of your Squadron-Leaders is a nerve-wreck.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Anwar Sadat, Raphael Israeli, The public diary of President Sadat - Volume 3, page 1041",
          "text": "He was a nerve-wreck.",
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        }
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