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outnerved

outnerved is the simple past and past participle of outnerve.

Meaning of outnerve

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

Questions about outnerved

What is outnerved the simple past and past participle of?
Outnerved is the simple past and past participle of outnerve.

Words near outnerved in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outnerved (page history and authors); outnerve (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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