nerve

/nəːv/

US pronunciation

American sound/nəːv/

nerve

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

US voice -> nerve

Myanmar meaning

(n) အာရုံကြော။ ထိတ်လန့်တုန်လှုပ်ခြင်း။ သတ္တိ။ ဝံ့စားခြင်း။ ရဲတင်းခြင်း။ စိတ်တင်းသည်။ သတ္တမွေးသည်။

Full entry

nerve /nɜ:v/ n

၁။ [C] အာရုံကြော။ pain caused by a trapped nerve ❍ nerve endings ❍ nerve fibres/ tissues.
၂။ nerves [pl] (infml ) ထိတ်လန့်တုန်လှုပ်ခြင်း။ suffer from (an attack of) nerves ❍ actors showing signs of first-night nerves ❍ Everyone's nerves are on edge after the accident. ❍ frayed nerves.
၃။ (က) [U] သတ္တိ။ I don't ride any more; I had a bad fall and lost my nerve. ❍ It takes a lot of nerve to be a racing driver. ❍ I wouldn't have the nerve to try anything like parachuting.
(ခ) [sing] (infml ) ဝံ့စားခြင်း။ ရဲတင်းခြင်း။ What a nerve! She borrowed my bike without asking! ❍ He's got a nerve, trying to tell me what to do. ❍ I didn't think you'd have the nerve to show your face here again. See also WAR OF NERVES
v ~ oneself for sth/ to do sth စိတ်တင်းသည်။ သတ္တိမွေးသည်။ I nerved myself to go to the dentist. ❍ She's nerving herself for a final confrontation.
❏ a bag/ bundle of nerves [IDM ] တုန်လှုပ်ချောက်ချားခြင်း။ ဒူးတုန်ခြင်း။ I was a bundle of nerves at the interview.
❏ get on sb's nerves [IDM ] (infml ) စိတ်ကသိကအောက် ဖြစ်စေသည်။ စိတ်တိုစေသည်။ Stop whistling! It's/ You're getting on my nerves!
❏ have nerves of steel [IDM ] သတ္တိကောင်းသည်။ သွေး ကောင်းသည်။
❏ hit/ touch a (raw/ sensitive) nerve [IDM ] အနာပေါ် တုတ်ကျသည်။ ။ You hit a raw nerve when you mentioned his first wife.
❏ nerve-cell n အာရုံကြောလှုံ့ဆော်မှု ဖြစ်စေသည့် ကလာပ်စည်း။ နဗ်ကြောဆဲလ်။
❏ nerve-centre (US -center ) n (ကြိုးကိုင်ရာ) ဗဟိုဌာန။ the nerve-centre of an election campaign.
❏ nerve gas n (စစ်သုံး) အာရုံကြော ထိခိုက်စေသည့် အဆိပ် ဓာတ်ငွေ့။
❏ nerveless adj
၁။ ခွန်အားမရှိသော။ The knife fell from her nerveless fingers.
၂။ အလွန်ရဲရင့်သော။ a nerveless racing driver.
❏ nerve-racking adj ရင်တုန်ပန်းတုန်ဖြစ်စရာ။ a nerve-racking wait for exam results.

More examples

A pinched nerve is causing her a lot of pain.
Cranial/peripheral nerves
There’s nothing really wrong with her, it’s just nerves.
[a case of nerves] : A case of nerves won’t stop me from performing tonight.
[calm someone’s nerves] : He asked for a drink to calm his nerves before heading out to the plane.
[a lot of nerve] : It took a lot of nerve for him to ask her out.
[the nerve to do something] : After months of agonizing, she finally found the nerve to tell him he was wrong.
[lose your nerve] : Suddenly I lost my nerve and I couldn’t move.
[a lot of nerve/some nerve] : You’ve got a lot of nerve, calling me at this time of night.
[have the nerve to do something] : She had the nerve to call me a liar after everything I’ve done for her.
[the nerve of someone] : The nerve of him, asking me for money!

Synonyms

courage, bravery, spirit, bravado, guts, daring, animate, assumption, assurance, audacity, backbone, boldness, brace, brass, brazenness, cheek, cheer, chutzpah, confidence, coolness, crust, determination, effrontery, embolden, encourage, endurance, energy, enhearten, face, fearlessness, firmness, force, fortify, fortitude, gall, gameness, gear up, get ready, grit, hardihood, hardiness, heart, hearten, impertinence, impudence, insolence, inspirit, intestinal fortitude, intrepidity, invigorate, mettle, might, motivate, moxie, neurological, pluck, prepare, presumption, psych, psych up, resolution, sauce, spunk, starch, steadfastness, steel, stomach, strengthen, temerity, vigor, will, wind up

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