nerve

1. 1.

   get ready for something difficult or unpleasant

   Synonymssteel

   Broaderbrace

Other forms of nerve

plural

nerves·

past tense

nerved·

present participle

nerving·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nerve

What does nerve mean?

nerve means "any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nerve?

nerve has 1 syllable: nerve. In IPA it is /ˈnɝv/.

What is another word for nerve?

Close synonyms include nervus, heart, mettle, spunk, boldness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nerve a common word?

nerve is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with nerve?

1 word rhymes with nerve. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.