Meaning of nerve up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make anxious.
   transitive
2. Synonym of nerve (“to give courage or strength; to supply energy or vigour”).
   transitive
3. To get courage or strength.
   intransitive

Examples

“was that why you hit him with the hammer because you were nerved up?”

“Man’s wrath He will restrain: and this faith is needed in times of persecution, such as the church was passing through, and such as these Hebrew believers must soon experience in all its bitterness. Thus he nerves them up for the dread conflict. What has he to fear who fights the good fight of faith under the banner of his glorious Captain?”

“Their influence goes far to nerve up the men to a constant fighting pitch, and no officer is tolerated away from his command unless sick or wounded.”

“To stand up in front of the large crowd and the TV cameras and ask his question had required some nerving up. Afterward, he said he felt as if he were on top of the world.”

“I was still trying to nerve up to tell my dad I wasn’t going to Mass on Sunday anymore.”

“Like the flyways of rattled birds, America’s concourses were constantly crisscrossed with Baby Boomers trying to nerve up for the waiting bedside consultation, the nursing home decision, the choosing of a casket.”

“He looked at her face. It was grim and set, a person nerving up for the last of a grueling hike.”

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