unnerve
verb
1 unnerve
Disturb the composure of.
synonyms: enervate, faze, unsettle.
Roget 158:
be impotent
etc.
adj.;
not have a leg to stand on.
vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou [Fr.],
vouloir prendre la lune avec les dents [Fr.].
collapse,
faint,
swoon,
fall into a swoon,
drop;
go by the board,
go by the wayside;
go up in smoke,
end in smoke
etc.
(fail)
732.
render powerless
etc.
adj.;
deprive of power;
disable,
disenable†;
disarm,
incapacitate,
disqualify,
unfit,
invalidate,
deaden,
cramp,
tie the hands;
double up,
prostrate,
paralyze,
muzzle,
cripple,
becripple†,
maim,
lame,
hamstring,
draw the teeth of;
throttle,
strangle,
garrotte,
garrote;
ratten†,
silence,
sprain,
clip the wings of,
put hors de combat [Fr.],
spike the guns;
take the wind out of one's sails,
scotch the snake,
put a spoke in one's wheel;
break the neck,
break the back;
unhinge,
unfit;
put out of gear.
unman,
unnerve,
enervate;
emasculate,
castrate,
geld,
alter,
neuter,
sterilize,
fix.
shatter,
exhaust,
weaken
etc.
160.
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Roget 160:
be weak
etc.
adj.;
drop,
crumble,
give way,
totter,
tremble,
shake,
halt,
limp,
fade,
languish,
decline,
flag,
fail,
have one leg in the grave.
render weak
etc.
adj.;
weaken,
enfeeble,
debilitate,
shake,
deprive of strength,
relax,
enervate,
eviscerate;
unbrace,
unnerve;
cripple,
unman
etc.
(render powerless)
158;
cramp,
reduce,
sprain,
strain,
blunt the edge of;
dilute,
impoverish;
decimate;
extenuate;
reduce in strength,
reduce the strength of;
mettre de l'eau dans son vin [Fr.].
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Dutch: ontzenuwen, afschrikken
Moby thesaurus: abate, affright, agitate, alarm, attenuate, blunt, castrate, cramp, cripple, crush, curdle the blood, damp, dampen, dash, deaden, debilitate, demasculinize, demoralize, desex, desexualize, devitalize, discomfit, disconcert, dismay, disquiet, dull, effeminize, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, etiolate, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, faze, fluster, fright, frighten, funk, gruel, horripilate, intimidate, knock down, lay low, make one tremble, mitigate, overcome, perturb, prostrate, psych out, raise apprehensions, rattle, reduce, ruffle, sap, scare, shake, shake up, soften up, spook, stagger, startle, sterilize, stun, stupefy, unbrace, undermine, undo, unman, unsettle, unstrengthen, unstring, upset, weaken ... show more.
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