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outnerving

outnerving is the present participle and gerund 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 outnerving

What is outnerving the present participle and gerund of?
Outnerving is the present participle and gerund of outnerve.

Words near outnerving in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outnerving (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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