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nerving out

nerving out is the present participle and gerund of nerve out.

Meaning of nerve out

Verb

nerve out (third-person singular simple present nerves out, present participle nerving out, simple past and past participle nerved out)

  1. (intransitive) To freak out; to become very nervous.
  2. (transitive) To remain calm in the face of a stressful situation.

Questions about nerving out

What is nerving out the present participle and gerund of?
Nerving out is the present participle and gerund of nerve out.

Words near nerving out in the dictionary

  1. nervimuscular
  2. nervine
  3. nervines
  4. nerviness
  5. nerving
  6. nerving out
  7. nerving up
  8. nervings
  9. nervish
  10. nervited
  11. nervo-

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nerving out (page history and authors); nerve out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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