nerves

Meaning of nerves

noun
  1. A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.
    The nerves can be seen through the skin.
  2. A neuron.
  3. A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood
    Some plants have ornamental value because of their contrasting nerves.
  4. Courage, boldness.
    He hasn't the nerve to tell her he likes her. What a wimp!
  5. Patience.
    The web-team found git-sed is really a time and nerve saver when doing mass changes on your repositories
  6. Stamina, endurance, fortitude.
  7. Audacity, gall.
    He had the nerve to enter my house uninvited.
  8. (polymer technology) The elastic resistance of raw rubber or other polymers to permanent deformation during processing.
  9. (in the plural) Agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotion.
    Ellie had a bad case of nerves before the big test.
  10. Sinew, tendon.
verb
  1. To give courage.
    May their example nerve us to face the enemy.
  2. To give strength; to supply energy or vigour.
    The liquor nerved up several of the men after their icy march.

Information about nerves

  • The singular form of nerves is: nerf.
  • Languages ​​in which nerves is used:

    (Press the button to hear it)

Hyphenation of nerves

nerves

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • nerves is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

nerves synonyms

Meaning nervousness:

nervousness

Meaning :

balls, brashness, brazenness

Anagrams of nerves

Nevers, Severn

Words that rhyme with nerves

carves, dwarves, headscarves, scarves, semidwarves, starves, swarves, varves, wharves, conserves, cryopreserves, deserves, disserves, enerves, innerves, kerves, misobserves, observes, outserves, perves, preserves, reobserves, reserves, serves, sterves, subserves, swerves, undeserves, unnerves, unreserves, verves, wherves, corves, curves, decurves, incurves, lurves, outcurves, recurves, turves, upcurves

Are you looking more rhymes for nerves? Try our rhymes search engine.