unnerved; unnerving; unnerves
1
: to deprive of courage, strength, or steadiness
2
: to cause to become nervous : upset
Examples of unnerve in a Sentence
Seeing the police in there unnerved me.
She was unnerved by his strange manner.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
The Sweet Dove Died is a novel that sets clashing unexpected currents in motion to stimulate and unnerve.
—Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Incompetence has a way of unnerving its witnesses.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
In the weeks before she was murdered, Goncalves recounted a series of unnerving events to Mortensen and a second surviving housemate, according to a police report released last month.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 18 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unnerve
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“Unnerve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unnerve. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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unnerve
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un·nerve
ˌən-ˈnərv 
ˈən-
unnerved; unnerving
: to deprive of nerve, courage, or self-control
the accident unnerved me
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