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outnerve

outnerve verb: to show more nerve than.

Verb

outnerve (third-person singular simple present outnerves, present participle outnerving, simple past and past participle outnerved)

  1. (transitive) To show more nerve than.
    • Always one has to anticipate the others (or others') actions and try to outwit as well as outnerve and outskill the others.1990, Charles Hartshorne, The Darkness and the Light, page 97

Forms of outnerve

third-person singular presentoutnerves
present participleoutnerving
past participleoutnerved
pastoutnerved

Origin of outnerve

From out- + nerve.

Questions about outnerve

What does outnerve mean?
Outnerve means to show more nerve than.
What part of speech is outnerve?
Outnerve is a verb.
What is the past tense of outnerve?
The past tense of outnerve is outnerved.

Words near outnerve in the dictionary

  1. outmuscling
  2. outname
  3. outnamed
  4. outnames
  5. outnaming
  6. outnerve
  7. outnerved
  8. outnerves
  9. outnerving
  10. outness
  11. outnesses

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