Richard Nixon
Oh yes, nerve wracking is two words.
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The Real Housewives of Orange County - 2006 Nerve Wracking 2-9 was released on: USA: 13 March 2007
It can be when it applies to a running horse (a racking pace), where rack is a gait.Otherwise, racking (the present participle of the verb to rack) is a verb form or a noun.*note that the homophone wracking is likely the proper word in wracking pain
It is "racking one's brain".One definition of the word racking is "To cause great physical or mental suffering, e.g. Pain racked his entire body."To "rack one's brain" is idiomatic, but has the same general implication of stress.
It means, "Wracking my brain, trying to talk to you."
It is technically either.But the word form used in the US vernacular is to "wrack" one's brain (or brains). The word wrack is a variant of "wreck", to ruin or destroy.This causes the dichotomy in "nerve-racking" and "nerve-wracking" : the US use tends toward the wracking as in wrecking, but racking can apply to torture as in stretching on a rack.(see related question)
The adjective is spelled "nerve-wracking" (but also seen as nerve-racking).It is either from the variant wrack meaning to wreck, or rack as in the torture rack, which is seen in the idiom to rack one's brain (to stretch or exert).
It varies from person to person, I had both done and felt neither of them at all, lip was somehow more nerve wracking
warring, warlike, bloody, terrifying, deadly, horrifying, blood-curdling, bone-chilling, eerie, nerve-wracking, etc.
It has an ear-splitting screech. This makes it an excellent guard animal, if you can get over this nerve-wracking noise. They will also attack and peck , and can be quite aggresive when not raised by humans.
hospitals do not take anything of exept about 3% or so of your money, which is a lot when you start wracking 10 grand a mission. they restore your health and revive you if you are fallen.