nerve up

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make anxious. transitive
    — was that why you hit him with the hammer because you were nerved up?
  2. Synonym of nerve (“to give courage or strength; to supply energy or vigour”). transitive
    — 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?
  3. To get courage or strength. intransitive
    — I was still trying to nerve up to tell my dad I wasn’t going to Mass on Sunday anymore.

词形变化

nerves up present,singular,third-person nerving up participle,present nerved up participle,past nerved up past
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