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verboutnerve (third-person singular simple present outnerves, present participle outnerving, simple past and past participle outnerved)
present singular third person outnerves · participle present outnerving · participle past outnerved · past outnerved
- transitiveTo show more nerve than.
Always one has to anticipate the others (or others') actions and try to outwit as well as outnerve and outskill the others.
1990, Charles Hartshorne, The Darkness and the Light, page 97
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