nerven

present singular third person nervens · participle present nervening · participle past nervened · past nervened

1. raretransitiveTo innerve.

   […] Circling like cats around a possibility that might, nervened, we touch together almost quite.

   1987, Jane Sillars, Kasia Boddy, Original prints: new writing from Scottish women, page 39

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   […] if I give them such serving as I can as to money it is impossible for me to raise it as this alarm has stopt^([sic]) all my channels and if I can't get matters on such a footing as to raise my credit again which is entirely knocked down, I must and am nervened to give up.

   1944, Magazine Antiques, volume 45, page 261

   Grover was a pilot of nervened skill and the Mustang was an airplane of precise machinery. He always missed the running figures in rubber suits by fifty feet, placing his .50 caliber machine gun bullets harmlessly in rubble and dust.

   1964, Explorations in Education, volumes 1-12, page 93