unnerve
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
/ʌnˈnɜː(ɹ)v/
Definition of unnerve
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble. Compare enervate.
“to unnerve the arm”
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verb
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To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble. Compare enervate.
“to unnerve the arm”
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To make somebody nervous, upset, alarm, shake the resolve of.
“I was greatly unnerved by the news that my attacker was back in the country.”
“But new immigration is no longer the primary driver of the growing racial, ethnic and religious diversity that unnerves much of the GOP coalition.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From un- + nerve.
Words you can make from unnerve
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