Nerved
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Nerved is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of nerve.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of nerve.
More Meanings
- (in combination) Having nerves of a specified kind.
- (botany, often in combination) Having one or more principal veins, especially of a leaf.
- (obsolete) Vigorous, strong; courageous.
Example Sentences
a strong-nerved hero
The leaf was palmately nerved.
Beſides, their pains and pleaſures are ſo dependent on outward circumſtances […] that they ſeldom act from the impulſe of a nerved mind, able to chooſe its own purſuit.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nervy, nervate, nervose, nervo-bilious, nerval, nervish.
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