Unnerve \Un*nerve"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + nerve.]
To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to
enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm.
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Unequal match'd, . . .
The unnerved father falls. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
unnerve
v : disturb the composure of [syn: faze, enervate, unsettle]
WordNet (r) 2.0
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "unnerve":
abate, affright, agitate, alarm, attenuate, blunt, castrate, cramp,
cripple, crush, curdle the blood, damp, dampen, dash, deaden,
debilitate, demasculinize, demoralize, desex, desexualize,
devitalize, discomfit, disconcert, dismay, disquiet, dull,
effeminize, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, etiolate, eviscerate,
exhaust, extenuate, faze, fluster, fright, frighten, funk, gruel,
horripilate, intimidate, knock down, lay low, make one tremble,
mitigate, overcome, perturb, prostrate, psych out,
raise apprehensions, rattle, reduce, ruffle, sap, scare, shake,
shake up, soften up, spook, stagger, startle, sterilize, stun,
stupefy, unbrace, undermine, undo, unman, unsettle, unstrengthen,
unstring, upset, weaken
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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