Crossword-Solution: NERVE 5 letters, 173 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Nerve	n.	One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.
Nerve	n.	A sinew or a tendon.
Nerve	n.	Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor.
Nerve	n.	Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution.
Nerve	n.	Audacity; assurance.
Nerve	n.	One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf.
Nerve	n.	One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects.
Nerve	v. t.	To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
NERVE	anagram	ENVER, NEVER, VERNE

We have 173 clues for the answer “NERVE”

Clue	Answers
"Of all the ___!"	1 answer
"That took some ___!"	1 answer
"That's some ___!"	1 answer
"The ___!" (insulted person's cry)	1 answer
"The ___!" (perturbed cry)	1 answer
"You have some ___!"	1 answer
"You've got a lot of ___!"	1 answer
"You've got some __!"	1 answer
Audacity	1 answer
BASE jumper's asset	1 answer
Bad Religion "Struck" one	1 answer
Brass, of sorts	1 answer
Brass, so to speak	1 answer
Bravery or courage	1 answer
Brazenness by the barrel	1 answer
Bundle of axons	1 answer
Bungee jumper's requirement	1 answer
Cheek or backbone	1 answer
Coolness in danger.	1 answer
Coolness in the pinch.	1 answer
Coolness when called for.	1 answer
Courage in adversity.	1 answer
Courage or chutzpah	1 answer
Courage or gall	1 answer
Courage under stress.	1 answer
Courage; daring	1 answer
Cowardly Lion's lack	1 answer
Daredevil's asset	1 answer
Daredevil's need	1 answer
Dinosaur Jr. "See me, 'cause I lost my ___"	1 answer
Effrontry	1 answer
Excessive boldness	1 answer
Forward attitude	1 answer
Fraidy-cat's lack	1 answer
Great boldness	1 answer
Hero's character trait	1 answer
Heroic character trait	1 answer
Hit a ___ (really upset someone)	1 answer
Human stimulus pathway	1 answer
Impertinent assurance: Slang.	1 answer
Impulse detector	1 answer
It may be in a bundle	1 answer
It might be pinched or struck	1 answer
Local anesthesia effect	1 answer
Neko Case "People Got a Lotta ___"	1 answer
Novocain target	1 answer
Novocaine target	1 answer
One acting on an impulse	1 answer
One in a bundle?	1 answer
One of a touchy bundle	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TRAEE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with NERVE (5)

Rise up from your bed of branches, Rise, O youth, and wrestle with me!” Faint with famine, Hiawatha Started from his bed of branches, From the twilight of his wigwam Forth into the flush of sunset Came, and wrestled with Mondamin; At his touch he felt new courage Throbbing in his brain and bosom, Felt new life and hope and vigor Run through every nerve and fibre.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

When a drummer had been knocking about in little drab towns and crawling across the wintry country in dirty smoking-cars, was he to be blamed if, when he chanced upon a fine human creature, he suddenly wished himself more of a man? While the little drummer was drinking to recover his nerve, Alexandra hurried to the drug store as the most likely place to find Carl Linstrum.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Gracious heaven—this mere girl! She must have the nerve of a stoic!” “The heart of a wife merely,” floated in a whisper about the ears of the three, and turning they saw Bathsheba in the midst of them.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Dimmesdale, whose sensibility of nerve often produced the effect of spiritual intuition, would become vaguely aware that something inimical to his peace had thrust itself into relation with him.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

The fever of war that would presently clog vein and artery, deaden nerve and destroy brain, had still to develop.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with NERVE (3)

I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from me, giddy with freedom. This, and this, and this, I said to him. I did not have to fear that I spoke too much. I did not have to worry that I was too slender, or too slow. This and this and this! I taught him how to skip stones, and he taught me how to carve wood. I could feel every nerve in my body, every brush of air against my skin.

Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles

No, this, she felt, was real life and if she wasn’t as curious or passionate as she had once been, that was only to be expected. It would be inappropriate, undignified, at thirty-eight, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour and intensity of a twenty-two-year-old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry, crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photo-booths, taking a whole day to make a compilation tape, asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just …

David Nicholls One Day

Are you going to kiss me?" I blabbered stupidly." I'm working up the nerve," he said softly.

Liz Reinhardt Double Clutch

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 411 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).