nerve-wreck
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
A person who is debilitated by stress.
Example Sentences
- "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."