nerve-wreck
noun 2
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noun
1
Alternative form of nerve rack.
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.
2
A person who is debilitated by stress.
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.
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