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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unnerve .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective deprived of courage and strength
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Examples
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When I saw the article in the Scene, the title unnerved me, "Manburner."
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And we remain unnerved by female ambition, accomplishment and authority.
Still Under Cleopatra's Spell Stacy Schiff 2010
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No wonder a word unnerved me; but I could not tell Mr. Hamilton this.
Uncle Max Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874
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** Steevee, Yeah, my sickness feels so close to the same today too that I'm kind of unnerved, which is no help.
DC's Dennis Cooper 2010
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She gazed directly at Cranmer with an expression that unnerved him.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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She gazed directly at Cranmer with an expression that unnerved him.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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She gazed directly at Cranmer with an expression that unnerved him.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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Piven admits to being "unnerved" by this recent wave of blog attacks and death threats triggered by Beck's incendiary rhetoric.
Peter Dreier: Glenn Beck's Attacks on Frances Fox Piven Trigger Death Threats Peter Dreier 2011
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Piven admits to being "unnerved" by this recent wave of blog attacks and death threats triggered by Beck's incendiary rhetoric.
Peter Dreier: Glenn Beck's Attacks on Frances Fox Piven Trigger Death Threats Peter Dreier 2011
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Iranaputra didn't know about the others, but he personally found the notion that the gargantuan Drex warship could be "unnerved" highly disturbing.
Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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