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What does nerve-shredding mean?

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Adjective
  1. (informal) suspenseful
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There's terrific tension amid the ferocious barrage of sinew-snapping, bone-bashing, nerve-shredding and ballistically executed mayhem.
Fatigued after a nerve-shredding match went all the way to penalties, the Spaniards  will be eager to avoid another marathon against the competition hosts.
It's pointing to as close a finish as that nerve-shredding middle-distance rivalry between the two men when they bestrode the athletics world.
Your stomach heaves with nerve-shredding anxiety.
Put together, it made for a nerve-shredding occasion.
To film a nerve-shredding drug bust, the production team found an actual stash house in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

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