Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to nerve
Participle: nerved
Gerund: nerving
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | nerve |
| you | nerve |
| he;she;it | nerves |
| we | nerve |
| you | nerve |
| they | nerve |
Perfect
| I | have nerved |
| you | have nerved |
| he;she;it | has nerved |
| we | have nerved |
| you | have nerved |
| they | have nerved |
Past
| I | nerved |
| you | nerved |
| he;she;it | nerved |
| we | nerved |
| you | nerved |
| they | nerved |
Pluperfect
| I | had nerved |
| you | had nerved |
| he;she;it | had nerved |
| we | had nerved |
| you | had nerved |
| they | had nerved |
Future
| I | will nerve |
| you | will nerve |
| he;she;it | will nerve |
| we | will nerve |
| you | will nerve |
| they | will nerve |
Future Perfect
| I | will have nerved |
| you | will have nerved |
| he;she;it | will have nerved |
| we | will have nerved |
| you | will have nerved |
| they | will have nerved |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | nerve |
| you | nerve |
| he;she;it | nerve |
| we | nerve |
| you | nerve |
| they | nerve |
Perfect
| I | have nerved |
| you | have nerved |
| he;she;it | have nerved |
| we | have nerved |
| you | have nerved |
| they | have nerved |
Imperfect
| I | nerved |
| you | nerved |
| he;she;it | nerved |
| we | nerved |
| you | nerved |
| they | nerved |
Pluperfect
| I | had nerved |
| you | had nerved |
| he;she;it | had nerved |
| we | had nerved |
| you | had nerved |
| they | had nerved |
Conditional
Present
| I | would nerve |
| you | would nerve |
| he;she;it | would nerve |
| we | would nerve |
| you | would nerve |
| they | would nerve |
Perfect
| I | would have nerved |
| you | would have nerved |
| he;she;it | would have nerved |
| we | would have nerved |
| you | would have nerved |
| they | would have nerved |
Imperative
| you | nerve |
| we | Let's nerve |
| you | nerve |
Verbs conjugated like 'nerve'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'nerve'
enerve,
kerve,
nerven,
perve,
serve,
terve,
bere,
carve,
cere,
curve,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- give strength
- strengthen
- to make strong or stronger
- anneal, brace, build up, confirm, enstrengthen, fortify, harden, indurate, intend, invigorate, munite, roborate, steel, strength, strengthen, thicken
- fortify
- brace, innervate, invigorate, steel, strengthen
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Recorded since circa 1374 as Middle English nerve, from Medieval Latin nervus (“nerve”), from Latin nervus (“sinew”). Doublet of neuron and sinew.
2. Verb sense 4 (“to get on (someone’s) nerves”) is chiefly a semantic loan from German nerven.
Sample Sentences
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[...] poured into her in electric streams, from every gentle touch and movement of the sleeping, confiding child. Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty. ~~~ The boundaries of the farm, the grove, the wood-lot, passed by her dizzily, as she walked on; and still she [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] of escape, in almost every case, by the desperate horror with which they regarded being sold south,—a doom which was hanging either over themselves or their husbands, their wives or children. This nerves the African, naturally patient, timid and unenterprising, with heroic courage, and leads him to suffer hunger, cold, pain, the perils of the wilderness, and the more dread penalties of recapture.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)