ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. (in combination) Having nerves of a specified kind.
  2. (botany, often in combination) Having one or more principal veins, especially of a leaf.
  3. (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.

Related Dictionary Tools

Sources & Attribution

FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.