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What does nerve-wracking mean?

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Adjective
  1. (proscribed) Intensely distressing or irritating to the nerves.
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He'd taken on the lonely, nerve-wracking job of service station attendant just to see what it offered.
It's a bit nerve-wracking, because you can really see the frill until after the neck edge is cast off.
It's pretty nerve-wracking to think that our efforts may have gone for nothing.
Graduate Fashion Week is a nerve-wracking time for students and tutors staging 31 shows which attract over 40,000 visitors.
The earliest drawings in the show were almost nerve-wracking to view, conveying the feeling of huge ideas having been forced onto a tiny stage.
Waiting to diagnose a suspicious lump can be nerve-wracking, and can give the cancer time to grow.

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