nerve
noun
one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.
have nerved
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present perfectof nerve.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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It must have nerved Steve as nothing else could have done.
From Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums by Mark Overton
The sight which had burst upon him was enough to have nerved with energy the most sluggish and unfeeling.
From I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by Azel Stevens Roe
Well, my child," said Lucille, in her most solemn tones, "to-day you have come to learn all, and I trust that you have nerved yourself to sustain the revelations which I have to make.
From The Somnambulist and the Detective The Murderer and the Fortune Teller by Allan Pinkerton
The one, while it threw a gloom over the country, would have nerved the people to renewed exertion and made them look steadily and unwaveringly at the true dangers that threatened them.
From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. DeLeon
To have crept into the house heart in mouth and pistol in hand, to have nerved himself to meet and overcome a desperate criminal—and then to find this!
From The Deaves Affair by Hulbert Footner
