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Answer for the clue "Set on edge ", 7 letters:
unnerve
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Word definitions for unnerve in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "to destroy the strength of," from un- (2) "reverse, opposite of" + nerve (v.). Meaning "to deprive of courage" is recorded from 1704. Related: Unnerved ; unnerving .\n
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unnerve \Un*nerve"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + nerve.] To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm. Unequal match'd, . . . The unnerved father falls. --Shak.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble. 2 To upset.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. disturb the composure of [syn: faze , enervate , unsettle ]
Usage examples of unnerve.
But that was unnerving enoughclearly another reason why Baken wanted someone brave!
Charlie chopped the throttle and the big biplane settled toward the desert floor at an unnerving rate.
In after years, when my life depended on steadiness of aim, I never felt so unnerved as I did when watching that bittern on that spring morning.
When they dropped Mude off at the stark brick building he had directed the driver to, Bling became downright unnerved.
And the unnerving sense of being followed by something dark and angry that never went away had burst forth now and again to scare the hell of Cyd so badly she had to call Dain on the phone to come over and sit with her.
Unnerving, because Hel was now totally dependent on the cable, after ninety minutes of negotiating the narrow, twisting shaft with its bottlenecks, narrow ledges, tricky dihedrons, and tight passages down which he had to ease himself gingerly, never surrendering to gravity because the cable was slack to give him maneuvering freedom.
Well, that was his story which, perhaps fortunately, I lacked time to analyse or brood upon, since there was much in it calculated to unnerve a man just entering the crisis of a desperate fray.
For a long time Gamba sat there, wholly unnerved and unable to resume his work.
The passing of the monkish caravan had unnerved him, but so had a new detail that was presented that very morning: Roger Lockless walking back into the refugee camp at the head of fifteen former prisoners of Kos-kosio Begulne.
It was quite unnerving for Michall to witness complete and utter silence from a man who thrived on constant prattle.
Luis handled another page: An artillery barrage followed the planes, conventional artillery was joined by Nebelwerfer rocket batteries to pummel and unnerve the Soviet advance positions.
The unnerving tension of expecting it every second made them erratic and nervous to the nth degree.
He had the unnerving suspicion this slender woman with her air of otherworldliness could see straight through to his very soul.
He felt nothing, but it unnerved him even though he was warned of the effect and had experienced it in simulation.
He smiled at Draco Malfoy, who looked unnerved by this, looking behind himself in a panic suddenly.