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Synonyms for nerve
nɜrvnerve
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
nerve, nervusnoun
any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body
Synonyms:
heart, mettle, boldness, face, cheek, nervus, brass, spunkheart, mettle, nerve, spunknoun
the courage to carry on
"he kept fighting on pure spunk"; "you haven't got the heart for baseball"
Synonyms:
affection, affectionateness, substance, brass, punk, philia, nervus, meat, tinder, centre, cheek, center, tenderness, kindling, core, marrow, sum, ticker, nub, kernel, nitty-gritty, spirit, gist, warmness, inwardness, pith, heart, bosom, pump, essence, face, mettle, warmheartedness, heart and soul, touchwood, fondness, spunk, boldness, eye, middleboldness, nerve, brass, face, cheekverb
impudent aggressiveness
"I couldn't believe her boldness"; "he had the effrontery to question my honesty"
Synonyms:
font, look, case, hardiness, nervus, aspect, administration, cheek, strikingness, boldness, fount, buttock, impudence, governing body, hardihood, plaque, daring, facial expression, brass section, brass, side, organization, grimace, heart, memorial tablet, spunk, face, organisation, mettle, expression, governance, brass instrument, human face, establishment, typeface, impertinencesteel, nerveverb
get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
Synonyms:
steel
Dictionary of English Synonymes
nervenoun
nervenoun
Synonyms:
courage, pluck, fortitude, firmness, resolution, hardihood, manhoodnerveverb
Synonyms:
strengthen, invigorate, fortify, brace
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
nervenoun
Synonyms:
(Slang) boldness, audacity, presumption, effrontery, courage, assurancenervenoun
Associated words:
neurology, neurologist, neurography, neuron, lecithin, rete, plexus, neurasthenia, neurasthenic, neurotic, sensorium, funiculus, ganglion, hilum, neurism, innervation, neuration, neuritis, neuropathic, nervine, neuroma, neuropathy, neuroid, neuric, neuricity, aneuria, glioma, neurosis, cinerea, cholesterin, perineurium, epineurium, internuncialnerveverb
Synonyms:
brace, strengthen, fortify, invigorate, energize
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#216 | center | |
#287 | case | |
#446 | look | |
#551 | side | |
#824 | centre | |
#889 | heart | |
#973 | face | |
#1041 | administration | |
#1070 | organization | |
#1141 | middle | |
#1488 | resolution | |
#1566 | eye | |
#1617 | core | |
#1669 | steel | |
#2181 | spirit | |
#2553 | expression | |
#2618 | font | |
#2814 | strength | |
#3032 | cap | |
#3374 | organisation | |
#3505 | kernel | |
#3601 | sum | |
#3877 | pump | |
#4041 | meat | |
#4308 | substance | |
#4489 | aspect | |
#4542 | establishment | |
#4580 | butt | |
#4731 | brass | |
#4897 | governance | |
#5312 | punk | |
#7366 | nervous | |
#7805 | essence | |
#8377 | nerve | |
#8595 | courage | |
#9695 | neural | |
#11845 | plaque | |
#12558 | ticker | |
#13523 | chord | |
#14560 | marrow | |
#14743 | cheek | |
#15988 | affection | |
#18719 | daring | |
#19215 | temper | |
#21252 | gall | |
#26713 | tenderness | |
#26967 | pellet | |
#32051 | bosom | |
#32803 | gist | |
#35844 | audacity | |
#37283 | nervosa | |
#38111 | typeface | |
#44610 | spunk | |
#46133 | firmness | |
#48084 | fondness | |
#50545 | hardiness | |
#51703 | boldness | |
#55935 | kindling | |
#65586 | mettle | |
#66196 | buttock | |
#69995 | pith | |
#70251 | nub | |
#74028 | jumpy | |
#80887 | grimace | |
#83585 | fount | |
#91785 | tinder | |
#93295 | neurotoxic | |
#99776 | toupee | |
#120619 | impudence | |
#153600 | hardihood | |
#159655 | impertinence | |
#194780 | philia | |
#218801 | touchwood | |
#244606 | inwardness | |
#315244 | warmness |
How to use nerve in a sentence?
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Our nose, mouth and throat contain nerve endings that sense painful and irritating chemicals in the inhaled air. For example, the burning, stinging feeling elicited by smoke inhalation is mediated by these nerve endings. They also trigger sneezing and cough, basically to defend the lungs from inhaling toxic chemicals, the new chemicals we identified in e-cigarettes activate these nerve endings more strongly. Especially when activated over a longer period, as in smokers, and potentially in e-cigarette users, these mechanisms have been shown to cause inflammation and asthma and contribute to emphysema.
When your blood sugar is elevated, it negatively affects your nerve cells — specifically nerve endings on your hands and feet. That’s a really big problem that diabetics have.
We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us or Venus But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time... Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past and as they will know again.
Following the detailed analysis of these samples, we can confirm that the man and woman have been exposed to the nerve agent Novichok, which has been identified as the same nerve agent that contaminated both Yulia and Sergei Skripal.
Translations for nerve
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- عصبArabic
- əsəbAzerbaijani
- нервBelarusian
- нервBulgarian
- nerviCatalan, Valencian
- nervCzech
- nerveDanish
- NervGerman
- νεύροGreek
- descaro, frescura, nervio, coraje, nerviosSpanish
- närvEstonian
- عصبPersian
- hermo, rohkeus, sisu, otsa, kärsivällisyys, röyhkeys, väristysFinnish
- toupet, culot, nerf, cran, nervureFrench
- nervioGalician
- नसHindi
- idegHungarian
- ջիղ, նյարդ, քաջությունArmenian
- sarafIndonesian
- taugIcelandic
- nervo, nervatura, faccia tosta, sfacciataggine, coraggio, nerviItalian
- 神経Japanese
- ნერვიGeorgian
- жүйкеKazakh
- សរសៃប្រសាទKhmer
- 신경, 神經Korean
- нервKyrgyz
- nervusLatin
- ເສັ້ນປະສາດLao
- nervasLithuanian
- nervsLatvian
- нервMacedonian
- мэдрэл, нервMongolian
- sarafMalay
- nervMaltese
- အာရုံကြောBurmese
- geduld, sterke zenuwen, uithoudingsvermogen, neuronenbundel, neuron, nerf, lef, verduldigheid, zenuw, zenuwknoop, durf, moed, stalen zenuwenDutch
- nerveNorwegian
- atsʼoosNavajo, Navaho
- nerwy, nerw, tupet, zuchwalstwo, bezczelność, odwaga, czelnośćPolish
- nervoPortuguese
- nerv, nervură, putere, insolență, nerușinare, nervi, curaj, răbdare, rezistență, tupeuRomanian
- нерв, мужество, выдержка, наглость, смелость, терпениеRussian
- nerv, живац, živac, нервSerbo-Croatian
- nervSlovak
- živecSlovene
- nervAlbanian
- tålamod, uthållighet, nerv, ådra, nerver, stamina, nervigSwedish
- நரம்புTamil
- నరముTelugu
- асабTajik
- เส้นประสาท, ประสาทThai
- nervTurkmen
- lakas ng loob, tapang, kapal, kagitingan, kompiyansa, kapal ng mukhaTagalog
- sinirTurkish
- сеңерTatar
- нервUkrainian
- عصبUrdu
- asabUzbek
- thần kinh, 神經Vietnamese
- nevVolapük
- נערווYiddish
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