OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 15240

unnerve

/ʌnˈnɜː(ɹ)v/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
desnervar
To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble. Compare enervate.
to unnerve the arm
desnervar
To make somebody nervous, upset, alarm, shake the resolve of.
But new immigration is no longer the primary driver of the growing racial, ethnic and religious diversity that unnerves much of the GOP coalition.
I was greatly unnerved by the news that my attacker was back in the country.
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