war of nerves

1. 1.

   the use of psychological tactics to destroy the opponents' morale

   Synonymspsychological warfare

   Broaderwar

Questions about war of nerves

What does war of nerves mean?

war of nerves means "the use of psychological tactics to destroy the opponents' morale".

What is another word for war of nerves?

Close synonyms include psychological warfare. 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 war of nerves a common word?

war of nerves is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.