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Webster 1913 Edition


Unnerve

Un-nerve′

,
Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+
nerve
.]
To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble;
as, to
unnerve
the arm
.
Unequal match’d, . . .
The
unnerved
father falls.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Unnerve

UNNERVE

,
Verb.
T.
unnerv'. To deprive of nerve, force or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm.

Definition 2024


unnerve

unnerve

English

Verb

unnerve (third-person singular simple present unnerves, present participle unnerving, simple past and past participle unnerved)

  1. To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble.
    to unnerve the arm
  2. To upset.
    I was greatly unnerved by this.

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