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nerve-shredding

adj

Definitions

  1. Suspenseful.

    • The interior of an active diesel locomotive's engine compartment was the nerve-shredding inferno I had imagined, intensified because the bulk of the violently drumming power plant hems you so close to it.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nerve-shredding. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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