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unnerved en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Deprived of courage, strength, confidence, self-control, etc.
    • […]Wrapped in around itself and self-befriended, His science needn't get him so unnerved. He had been too all out , too much extended . He slapped his breast to verify his purse And hugged himself for all his universe . […] 1995 October 14, Robert Frost, Richard Poirier, Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays (LOA #81) (DE-601)374069697: Library of America series), Library of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 360:
    • `Surely he dieth even now.' `True,' she said, with a start. `Oh, why did I not come before! I am unnerved - my hand trembles, even mine - and yet it is very easy.' 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most unnerved Degree=Sup lexicographic
more unnerved Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

unnervedly · unnervedness

Translations (4)

mi māngi (deprived of courage, strength, confidence, self-control, etc.) · fi hermostunut (deprived of courage, strength, confidence, self-control, etc.) · es desnervado (deprived of courage, strength, confidence, self-control, etc.) · de entnervt (deprived of courage, strength, confidence, self-control, etc.)

unnerved en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of unnerve
    form of unnerve