Nerve-wrecking Or Nerve-wracking - WordReference Forums
2009年3月6日 · What is the difference between nerve-wracking and nerve-wrecking? I can't find an entry of nerve-wrecking in the Longman dictionary. But I've seen sentences using nerve wreck. Wreck can be used as a verb. So I think it's natural to have such a word as nerve-wrecking, which can be used to...
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2007年2月21日 · Buenas: No entiendo lo que quiere decir "nerve-wracking". Aquí les dejo el contexto donde encontré dicha palabra.Gracias de antemano. When you work in a job where you are constantly using computers for long enough, you develop a certain anxious feeling which can pretty much only be cured...
with sobs racking her body - WordReference Forums
2018年4月25日 · As Nikki unlocked the door to Cloud Fen Cottage the enormity of what she had just been through hit her. She threw her coat down and fought back the tears, but only until she reached her kitchen. With sobs racking her body she grabbed a box of tissues, and the brandy bottle from the cupboard. The...
nerve-racking or nerve-wracking? | WordReference Forums
2007年8月29日 · More precisely, as Trisia's link states, racked/racking and wracked/wracking are interchangeable.
wracked by sobs - WordReference Forums
2017年3月7日 · Hi there, I came across this sentence "Tears filled her eyes, and suddenly she was weeping, her whole body wracked by sobs." What does "wracked by sobs"...
nerve-wracking / nerve-wrecking | WordReference Forums
2010年6月17日 · "Nerve-wracking" está en el diccionario WR (el cual está accesible via la ventanilla "Dictionary and thread title search" que se encuentra aquí arriba). Yo digo "nerve-wracking", nunca "nerve-wrecking".
wracking sobs - WordReference Forums
2017年5月15日 · Bonsoir, "All the anxiety of the past day worked itself out of her body in the form of huge, wracking sobs." Ça décrit... un mouvement, un effet physique...
wracking shivers - WordReference Forums
2016年9月27日 · Hola a todos, por favor ayúdenme a traducir correctamente esta oración: wracking shivers of pleasure through her body, mi intento: "destrucción:confused: de escalofríos de placer a través de su cuerpo", mi problema es traducir correctamente wracking en el contexto. he felt his acceptance of...
bone-wracking | WordReference Forums
1* bone-wracking. (no encuentro en ningún lado que significa), la oración en la que viene es: The crying deepened to bone-wracking sobs.
"racking my brains" - WordReference Forums
2005年7月19日 · I've racked my brains trying to come up with a good example of this expression! Does anyone else use this expression? I don't understand where the use of "rack" has come from. My only thought was that maybe it was a strange pronunciation of wrecked because I have heard of "it is wrecking...