from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To deprive of fortitude, strength, or firmness of purpose.
- transitive v. To make nervous or upset.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble.
- v. To upset.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive v. To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; weaken; enfeeble; hence, to deprive of power or authority, as a government.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. disturb the composure of
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With respect to the financial guidance, now you've given a lot of guidelines but again you haven't reinstated your formal financial guidance and given two good quarters really you've had are you still seeing some things out there that kind of unnerve you a little bit as far as giving formal financial guidance to the Street?
New equity targets would not be introduced when the charter was revised by the end of June because they would "unnerve" investors and companies yet to attain that level, Nogxina said.
The militants, he said, spoke of carrying out the attack to "unnerve" the government.
Duché prayed for the success of the independence effort, that God would 'unnerve' the hands of British soldiers and concluded with the words, 'All this we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, thy Son and our Savior.'"
"An increase in the severity of Japan's nuclear crisis…served to unnerve the market," Standard Bank analyst Leon Westgate said in a note to clients.
Chelsea sought to push downfield but the kind of episode that saw Alex head wide from a corner did not unnerve the opposition greatly and Petr Cech was still the more heavily involved of the goalkeepers.
They're also great because they can unnerve people if you accidentally type them in the course of online conversations.
Women who possessed unusual knowledge (of herbal cures, for instance), women who had sharp tongues, women who expressed their sexuality outside the bounds of traditional roles -- in other words, the same kinds of bold females who continue to unnerve us today -- risked being accused.
The warning will come as a shock to many in France and is likely to unnerve markets already anxious at the prospect of the euro debt crisis spreading to the US and Asia.
Declines tend to unnerve consumers and discourage builders from constructing homes.