nerve
/nɝv/ verb C2- To give courage. · May their example nerve us to face the enemy.
- To give strength; to supply energy or vigour. · The liquor nerved up several of the men after their icy march.
- To perform a neurectomy on (someone or something).
He/she/it nerves · Past nerved · Past participle nerved · -ing form nerving
Verb forms
- Base form
- nerve
- He/she/it
- nerves
- Past
- nerved
- Past participle
- nerved
- -ing form
- nerving
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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With this end in view Anne had strained every nerve during the examinations.
He was always a man of iron nerve, and the story is still told in India how he crawled down a drain after a wounded man-eating tiger.
“At present I cannot spare energy and nerve force for digestion,” he would say in answer to my medical remonstrances.
I thought he had not the nerve to lie quiet before an alarm of fire.
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