nerve wracking meaning
Nerve-racking. In the phrasal adjective nerve-racking, rack is again used in the sense meaning to torture. Something that is nerve-racking tortures the nerves or figuratively stretches them. Wrack, again, makes some sense, though.We can think of nerve-wracking as meaning wrecking the nerves instead of torturing the nerves, in which case the spelling is perfectly justifiable.ack [oneâs] brain. Rack [oneâs] brain is one common phrase in which rack in the torture-related sense is figuratively extended. To rack oneâs brain is to torture it or to stretch it by thinking very hard. To wrack oneâs brain would be to wreck it.