nerve-racking vs nerve-wracking
Definitions
adjective
- extremely irritating to the nerves
Examples
The women and children spent a nerve-racking day outside waiting while fighting continued around them.
I met with them both in the morning to support them during this stressful and nerve-racking day.
Hugging the spectacular Ligurian coast, the route tilted uphill immediately with a 15. 8-kilometer (9. 8-mile) climb followed by a nerve-racking descent full of hairpin curves with cliffs heading down to the sea lurking just over the guardrails.
Definitions
adjective
- extremely irritating to the nerves
Examples
The ordeal of the police identity parade is as nerve-wracking for those who take part as the witnesses on the far side of the darkened glass screen.
I found the film's fractured chronology, grimy miserablism, and Cotillard's ferrety frenzy nerve-wracking, with no compensating grace notes to offset the squalor and syringes.
Though Washington again overcame its problems and found a way to win, the process is becoming nerve-wracking, players said.
