outnerve
English
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editoutnerve (third-person singular simple present outnerves, present participle outnerving, simple past and past participle outnerved)
- (transitive) To show more nerve than.
- 1990, Charles Hartshorne, The Darkness and the Light, page 97:
- Always one has to anticipate the others (or others') actions and try to outwit as well as outnerve and outskill the others.