unnerve
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transitive verb \-ˈnərv\Definition of UNNERVE
1
: to deprive of courage, strength, or steadiness
Examples of UNNERVE
- Seeing the police in there unnerved me.
- She was unnerved by his strange manner.
First Known Use of UNNERVE
1601
Related to UNNERVE
- Synonyms
- demoralize, emasculate, paralyze, undo, unman, unstring
- Antonyms
- nerve
Synonym Discussion of UNNERVE
unnerve, enervate, unman, emasculate mean to deprive of strength or vigor and the capacity for effective action. unnerve implies marked often temporary loss of courage, self-control, or power to act <unnerved by the near collision>. enervate suggests a gradual physical or moral weakening (as through luxury or indolence) until one is too feeble to make an effort <a nation's youth enervated by affluence and leisure>. unman implies a loss of manly vigor, fortitude, or spirit <a soldier unmanned by the terrors of battle>. emasculate stresses a depriving of characteristic force by removing something essential <an amendment that emasculates existing safeguards>.
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