Translation for "nerve racking" to spanish

Nerve racking

adjective

• horripilante
• que crispa los nervios
• enervante
• espantoso

Translation examples

horripilante adjective

It was a perilous and nerve-racking descent, trickier even than the upward climb.
La bajada era peligrosa y horripilante, mucho más dura que la ascensión.

"We will hope your new experiences will not be so nerve-racking as our last." "By Jove, padre!" said Roxton.
Esperemos que su próxima experiencia no sea tan horripilante como la primera. —¡Por Júpiter, padre! —exclamó Roxton—.

Scouting by plane eliminates a good deal of the preliminary work, but when as upon occasion I did spot a herd not more than thirty or forty miles from camp, it still meant that those forty miles had to be walked, crawled, or wriggled by the hunters — and that by the time this body and nerve-racking manoeuvre had been achieved, the elephant had pushed on another twenty miles or so into the bush.
El ojeo en avión elimina gran cantidad de trabajo preliminar, pero cuando divisaba a una manada, como sucedía en ocasiones, a no más de treinta o cuarenta millas del campamento suponía que los cazadores debían recorrer caminando, reptando o serpenteando esas cuarenta millas y que, una vez finalizada esa maniobra corporal y horripilante, el elefante había recorrido otras veinte millas o así en la breña.

enervante adjective

Again that nerve-racking silence.
Se repitió aquel enervante silencio.

All of a sudden it can be nerve-racking.
De pronto puede resultar enervante.

His laughter was just as nerve-racking as his voice.
—Su risa era tan enervante como su voz.

The water ran in a nerve-racking, steady rush.
El monótono rumor del agua corriendo resultaba enervante.

It was nerve-racking, not being able to see him clearly.
Resultaba enervante no poder verlo con claridad.

The river trip down here was pretty nerve-racking.
El viaje río abajo es más bien enervante por estos lugares.

She tapped it against the cup in a regular nerve-racking beat.
Golpeaba con él la taza siguiendo un ritmo regular y enervante.

Marasi nodded, then prepared herself for another nerve-racking experience.
Marasi asintió con la cabeza y se preparó para soportar otra experiencia enervante.

The clicking sound was nerve-racking, so she took another tour of the room.
El sonido que producía era enervante, así que se dio una vuelta más.

The breeze raised small waves that broke a few yards offshore with a nerve-racking hiss.
La brisa levantaba unas olitas que rompían a pocos metros de la orilla, con un chasquido enervante.

espantoso adjective

That Dr. Willett’s “purgation” had been an ordeal almost as nerve-racking in its way as his hideous wandering in the vanished crypt is shewn by the fact that the elderly physician gave out completely as soon as he reached home that evening.
La «purificación» debió constituir para el doctor Willett una prueba tan espantosa como su recorrido nocturno de la espantosa cripta, a juzgar por el abatimiento que provocó en el anciano médico.