Nerve is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NERVE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to give courage to
• brace oneself mentally to face a demanding situation
• To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm.
• get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
• give courage to oneself
NOUN:
• a whitish fibre or bundle of fibres in the body that transmits impulses of sensation to the brain or spinal cord, and impulses from these to the muscles and organs
• impudence or audacity
• feelings of nervousness
• a prominent unbranched rib in a leaf, especially in the midrib of the leaf of a moss.
• One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.
• A sinew or a tendon.
• Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor.
• Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution.
• Audacity; assurance.
• One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf.
• One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects.
• any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body
• the courage to carry on
• impudent aggressiveness
• bundle of fibres that conducts impulses between the brain and body
• one's steadiness and courage in a demanding situation
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• cordlike bundle of fibres that conducts impulses between the brain and other parts of the body

Words related to NERVE

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Words that contain NERVE

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How to use NERVE in a sentence

• As a matter of fact I found that it required all my nerve to pretend that I did not know it.
• She actually had the nerve to be there herself at the same time.
• Every nerve in her body seemed tense and quivering.
• He had liked her nerve in coming out like that to meet him alone at midnight.
• Lady Linton quivered in every nerve as she saw it, for her heart told her instantly what it contained.
• My nerve was not in a sufficiently robust state for me to disobey any German.
• To-night, with every tortured nerve leaping, it was unbearable.
• He felt nothing but a vast fatigue, an overwhelming weariness, not so much of body, but of nerve and spirit too.
• When the nerve is stimulated there passes from one end to the other an impulse, and the rapidity with which it travels can be accurately measured.
• None but those of strong nerve could successfully pass through the ordeal, all of which took place at night.
• The realisation of the folly of trying to escape from the burden that had been laid upon her affected her nerve and seat during her performances in the ring.
• Sitting beside him on the front seat, I told him how much I admired his nerve and coolness.
• The South is now straining every nerve to establish a formidable steam-navy.
• Many an organ, nerve, and fibre in our bodily frame performs its silent part for years, and we are quite unconscious of its value.
• With Endicott and his wife, and also with Sir Marmaduke, it was acute tension, the awful nerve strain of anticipation.
• The listening Bruxellois grew paler, straining every nerve to catch the voice of Antwerp.
• And when he suffered, it was with so quick a nerve and yet so wide an apprehension that the race seemed to suffer in him.
• IRON NERVE AND FAITH And, in the meantime, Rheims goes about what business it may have with that iron nerve and endurance and faith which is the new inheritance of France.
• For a man of nerve, I cannot imagine a more thrilling task.
• McKinney admitted that his nerve had failed, and that he dared not knock, but he said that he had summoned courage enough to look in at the window.
• What nerve she had, if this was what I imagined, the hair of the little dead child.
• His dazed brain registered sensations of pain both dull and sharp from a score of bruised nerve centers.

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