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Textual thesaurus for "nerve"

(noun) brass, cheek, boldness, face

impudent aggressiveness

I couldn't believe her boldness; he had the effrontery to question my honesty


(noun) heart, spunk, mettle

the courage to carry on

he kept fighting on pure spunk; you haven't got the heart for baseball


(noun) nervus

any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body


(verb) steel

get ready for something difficult or unpleasant