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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.
The first was announced after painstaking, nerve-shredding preparation.
To film a nerve-shredding drug bust, the production team found an actual stash house in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
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.
Of the teams ending their FIFA World Cup exile, perhaps only Honduras endured a more nerve-shredding finale.
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.

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