"unnerve" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ʌnˈnɜː(ɹ)v/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-unnerve.wav [Southern-England] Forms: unnerves [present, singular, third-person], unnerving [participle, present], unnerved [participle, past], unnerved [past]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)v Etymology: un- + nerve Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|nerve}} un- + nerve Head templates: {{en-verb}} unnerve (third-person singular simple present unnerves, present participle unnerving, simple past and past participle unnerved)
  1. To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble. Translations (deprive of nerve, force or strength): обезсилвам (obezsilvam) (Bulgarian), 使虛弱 (Chinese Mandarin), 使虚弱 (shǐ xūruò) (Chinese Mandarin), lamauttaa (Finnish), affaiblir (French), debilito (Latin), истощать (istoščatʹ) (Russian), ослаблять (oslabljatʹ) (Russian), debilitar (Spanish), enervar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-unnerve-en-verb-gyVEQc81 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with un- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 66 34 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 57 43 Disambiguation of 'deprive of nerve, force or strength': 98 2
  2. To make somebody nervous, upset, alarm, shake the resolve of. Translations (upset): нервирам (nerviram) (Bulgarian), разстройвам (razstrojvam) (Bulgarian), 使不安 (shǐ bù'ān) (Chinese Mandarin), hermostuttaa (Finnish), hermostua (Finnish), énerver (French), whakahārangi (Maori), kōnatunatu (Maori), огорчать (ogorčatʹ) (Russian), обескураживать (obeskuraživatʹ) (Russian), uznemiriti (Serbo-Croatian), jeziv (note: adj. "unnerving") [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), živcirati (Serbo-Croatian), enervar (Spanish), нервува́ти (nervuváty) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-unnerve-en-verb-TFHlei1a Disambiguation of 'upset': 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: unnervingly

Inflected forms

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