outnerve

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English

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Etymology

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From out- +‎ nerve.

Verb

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outnerve (third-person singular simple present outnerves, present participle outnerving, simple past and past participle outnerved)

  1. (transitive) To show more nerve than.
    • 1990, Charles Hartshorne, The Darkness and the Light, page 97:
      Always one has to anticipate the others (or others') actions and try to outwit as well as outnerve and outskill the others.