Nerve

Definition: Nerve

Nerve

Noun

1. Any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body.

2. The courage to carry on: "he kept fighting on pure spunk"; "you haven't got the heart for baseball".

3. Impudent aggressiveness; "I couldn't believe her boldness"; "he had the effrontery to question my honesty".

Verb

1. Get ready for something difficult or unpleasant.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nerve" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Nerve \Nerve\, noun. [from Old English expression nerfe, French nerf, from Latin expression nervus, akin to Greek sinew, nerve; compare to string, bowstring; perhaps akin to English needle. Compare to Neuralgia.]. (references)

19th Century Satire

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Nerve

Courage

Take courage, muster courage, summon up courage, pluck up courage; nerve oneself, take heart; take heart, pluck up heart of grace; hold up one's head, screw one's courage to the sticking place; come up to scratch; stick to one's guns, standfire, stand against; bear up, bear up against; hold out; (persevere) a.

Manliness, manhood; nerve, pluck, mettle, game; heart, heart of grace; spunk, guts, face, virtue, hardihood, intestinal fortitude; firmness; (stability); heart of oak; bottom, backbone, spine; (perseverance) a. resolution; (determination); bulldog courage.

Give courage, infuse courage, inspire courage; reassure, encourage, embolden, inspirit, cheer, nerve, put upon one's mettle, rally, raise a rallying cry; pat on the back, make a man of., keep in countenance.

Exertion

Take pains; do one's best, do one's level best, do one's utmost; give one hundred percent, do the best one can, do all one can, do all in one's power, do as much as in one lies, do what lies in one's power; use one's best endeavor, use one's utmost endeavor; try one's best, try one's utmost; play one's best card; put one's best leg foremost, put one's right leg foremost; have one's whole soul in his work, put all one's strength into, strain every nerve; spare no efforts, spare no pains; go all lengths; go through fire and water; (resolution); move heaven and earth, leave no stone unturned.

Sensibility

Die of a rose in aromatic pain; touch to the quick; touch on the raw, touch a raw nerve.

Strength

Stoutness; Adjective: lustihood, stamina, nerve, muscle, sinew, thews and sinews, physique; pith, pithiness; virtility, vitality.

Render strong; Adjective: give strength; Noun: strengthen, invigorate, brace, nerve, fortify, sustain, harden, case harden, steel, gird; screw up, wind up, set up; gird up one's loins, brace up one's loins; recruit, set on one's legs; vivify; refresh; refect; reinforce, reenforce; (restore).

Crosswords: Nerve

Danish (nerve).

It's activated by nerve impulses from the wrist muscles (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

The nerve of those Whos (How the Grinch Stole Christmas; writing credit: Jeffrey Price)

You've got a lot of nerve. You knew I was crazy about her (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin)

I am in control of you arm nerve! (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck)

Stops the brain from sending nerve messages down the spinal cord within thirty seconds (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

Well, she finally got the nerve to file for divorce ("Goodbye Earl"; performing artist: Dixie Chicks)

God dont let me lose my nerve (Put Your Lights On; performing artist: Everlast)

I can't believe u had the nerve to say the things u said (Don't Wanna Try; performing artist: FRANKIE J)

Trying to get my nerve built up to be so strong (Come & Talk To Me; performing artist: Jodeci)

That's the nerve you struck in me that sent a signal (Mental Picture; performing artist: Jon Secada)

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Twisted Nerve (1968)

I Like Your Nerve (1931)

Cold Nerve (1925)

A Man of Nerve (1925)

Plenty of Nerve (1925)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Action Hero's Handbook: How to Catch a Great White Shark, Perform the Vulcan Nerve Pinch, Track a Fugitive, and Dozens of Other TV and Movie Skills (reference)

• Experiments on the facial nerve A study of nerve action potentials in the cat (reference)

• Fine Afferent Nerve Fibers and Pain (reference)

• Molecular Basis of Axon Growth & Nerve Pattern Formation, Taniguchi Symposia on Brain Sciences (reference)

• Nerve Axon (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Nerve (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Raw Nerve (reference)

• Twitch Of The Death Nerve (a.k.a. Bay Of Blood) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Nerve Agents [EP] [EP] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Illustration of a cross-section of the skin with labels indicating epidermis, dermis, sweat gland, fatty tissue, nerve follicle and oil gland. See artwork: RR-15b, WYNTK-22b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Note the herpetic lesions on the palmar surface of the left ring finger. Living in the dorsal root ganglia of the spinal cord, under stressful conditions, the herpes viruses migrate along the pathways of peripheral nerve distribution. Credit: CDC.

This is a photomicrograph of Clostridium botulinum stained with Gentian violet. The bacterium C. botulinum produces a nerve toxin, which causes the rare, but serious paralytic illness Botulism. Credit: CDC.

The crow's nest at Station Moclips - 215 feet above the ground Note spikes driven into tree - builders would drive spikes and go hand over hand Triangulation party of H. A. Seran According to Seran: "It took men of uncommon nerve to do this work.". Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Opiate receptor activation of a nerve and blockage of the signal by naltrexone. Credit: NIAA.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 9, Bourges, France. : Interior of electric department, used to test muscle reaction in nerve damaged patients. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Dr. Guertin's nerve syrup. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

With superb nerve the operators stuck to their post. Credit: Library of Congress.

Speaking of nerve racking noises!. Credit: Library of Congress.

My deah! the nerve of him!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We need something more than a fixed Law of Nature to settle which nerve shall carry it.

His nerve seemed absolutely destroyed

Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Neuron -- a nerve cell in the brain. (references)

Surgery on the stomach or vagus nerve. (references)

No one knows why the nerve cells stop growing. (references)

Economic History

Philippines

Metropolitan Manila is the country's nerve center of industrial and financial activity, transportation and communications, trade, and educational services. (references)

Political Economy

Nigeria

The Federal Government, which controls the National Police Force, has done little to arrest the deteriorating security situation in Lagos, the country's commercial nerve center, strengthening calls by many southern governors for state police forces. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "nerve": abdominal nerve plexus ♦ Abducens Nerve ♦ Abducens Nerve Diseases ♦ Abducens Nerve Injury ♦ abducens paralysis 2.sixth nerve paralysis ♦ abducent nerve ♦ Accessory Nerve ♦ Accessory Nerve Diseases ♦ acoustic nerve ♦ afferent nerve ♦ alveolar dental nerve ♦ anterior crural nerve ♦ anterior ethmoidal nerve ♦ atrophy of the optic nerve ♦ auditory nerve ♦ Autonomic Nerve Block ♦ avulsion of the optic nerve ♦ cervical nerve ♦ Chorda Tympani Nerve ♦ coccygeal nerve ♦ Cochlear Nerve ♦ compression of the external popliteal nerve ♦ cranial nerve ♦ Cranial Nerve Diseases ♦ Cranial Nerve Injuries ♦ Cranial Nerve Neoplasms ♦ cubital nerve ♦ Depressor nerve ♦ efferent nerve ♦ eight cranial nerve ♦ eighth cranial nerve ♦ eleventh cranial nerve ♦ excavation of papilla of optic nerve ♦ Facial Nerve ♦ Facial Nerve Diseases ♦ Facial Nerve Injuries ♦ Femoral Nerve ♦ fifth cranial nerve ♦ first cranial nerve ♦ fourth cranial nerve ♦ free nerve ending ♦ glaucomatous excavation of papilla of optic nerve ♦ glossopalatine nerve ♦ Glossopharyngeal Nerve ♦ Glossopharyngeal Nerve Diseases ♦ have the nerve ♦ have the nerve to ♦ have the nerve to do ♦ Hypoglossal Nerve ♦ Hypoglossal Nerve Diseases ♦ inferior alveolar nerve ♦ intermediate nerve of Wrisberg ♦ Lingual Nerve ♦ lose one's nerve ♦ lumbar nerve ♦ malacia of the optic nerve opticomalacia ♦ man of nerve and sinew ♦ mandibular nerve ♦ Maxillary Nerve ♦ median nerve ♦ medullated nerve fiber ♦ motor nerve ♦ motor nerve fiber ♦ Musculocutaneous Nerve ♦ musculospiral nerve ♦ myelinated nerve fiber ♦ nasal nerve ♦ nasociliary nerve ♦ nerve agent ♦ Nerve Block ♦ nerve block anaesthesia ♦ nerve block anesthesia ♦ nerve cell ♦ nerve center ♦ nerve centre ♦ nerve compression ♦ Nerve Compression Syndromes ♦ nerve deafness ♦ Nerve Degeneration ♦ nerve end ♦ nerve ending ♦ Nerve Endings ♦ nerve entrapment ♦ nerve fiber ♦ Nerve Fibers ♦ nerve fibre ♦ nerve gas ♦ Nerve Growth Factor ♦ Nerve Growth Factors ♦ nerve impulse ♦ Nerve Net ♦ nerve of Luschka ♦ nerve oneself ♦ nerve oneself to do smth. ♦ Nerve pain ♦ nerve pathway ♦ nerve plexus ♦ nerve racked ♦ nerve racking ♦ Nerve Regeneration ♦ Nerve Sheath Tumors. Additional references.

Beginning with "nerve": nerve-blocker, nerve-breaking, nerve-canal, nerve-cell, nerve-cells, nerve-centre, nerve-centres, nerve-cluster, nerve-convulsing, nerve-cord, nerve-damaging, nerve-eating, nerve-end, nerve-ending, nerve-endings, nerve-ends, nerve-ends-shredded-into-mulch, nerve-fraying, nerve-frazzled, nerve-free, nerve-glove, nerve-grating, nerve-jangling, nerve-knot, nerve-muscle, nerve-nets, nerve-points, nerve-poisons, nerve-racked, nerve-racking, nerve-racking nerve-wracking stressful trying, nerve-rackingly, nerve-rasping, nerve-ridden, nerve-root, Nerve-shaken, nerve-shattering, nerve-shatteringly, nerve-shredder, nerve-shredding, nerve-soothing, nerve-specific, nerve-stimulators, nerve-storming, nerve-strain, nerve-stretching, nerve-tearing, nerve-testing, nerve-tingling, nerve-tips, nerve-tree, nerve-wasting, nerve-wracked, nerve-wracking, nerve-wrecking.

Ending with "nerve": anti-nerve.

Albanian

nerv, vullnet (pleasure, volition, willpower), tendosem (tighten), guxim (audacity, boldness, courage, dare, daring, doughtiness, fearlessness, fortitude, forwardness, guts, hardihood, hardiness, heart, intrepidity, mettle, pluck, spirit, spunk, stoutness, valor, valorous, valour), gjakftohtësi (aplomb, calmness, coolness, equanimity, impassibility, impassivity, moderation, order, phlegm, placidity, presence of mind, recollection, sangfroid, self control, self possession, serenity, unconcern), forcë (coercion, effect, emphasis, energy, force, intensity, might, mightiness, muscle, pith, potency, power, puissance, strain, strength, vigor, vigour, violence), energji (dash, drive, dynamism, energetics, energy, gumption, might, pepper, pith, power, push, steam, strenuousness, vigor, vigour, vim, young blood, zip). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هستيريا (hysteria, restlessness), ‏قوى (anneal, be fortified, be more powerful, become mighty, become stronger, beefy, boost, brace, cogent, confirm, consolidate, enforce, fasten, fibrous, fortify, freshen, great, grow stronger, harden, hefty, heighten, help, heroic, in power, innervate, intensify, invigorate, prop, reinforce, sinew, stiffen, strengthen, support, sustain, tighten), ‏وقاحة (audacity, boldness, cheek, effrontery, face, flippancy, forwardness, gall, hardihood, immodesty, impertinence, impolicy, impudence, insolence, lip, manginess, nastiness, naughtiness, perkiness, pertness, presumption, sauce, sauciness), ‏وتر (bow, catgut, chord, cord, gut, sinew, snare, strain, string, tauten, tendon, tense, tension), ‏عصب الضرس, ‏عصب (bandage, bind, chord, sinew, swathe), ‏جرأة (boldness, bravery, courage, daring, enterprise, fearlessness, guts, intrepidity, pluck, stoutness, undauntedness), ‏العصب, ‏شجع (animate, cheer, comfort, countenance, cultivate, embolden, encourage, feed, fortify, foster, hearten, inspirit, instigation, invite, promote, root, spur, support), ‏شجاعة (assurance, brace, bravery, brawler, courage, fortitude, gut, guts, hardiness, heroism, manhood, pluck, prowess, sand, spirit, spunk, stoutness, valor, valour). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сухожилие (leader, ligament, sinew, string, tendon), самообладание (countenance, equanimity, grip, repose, restraint, self control, self possession, self-command, self-mastery, temper, willpower), сила (definition, drive, dynamism, effect, energy, feck, fiber, fibre, flush, force, forcefulness, forte, goodness, hardness, impetus, intension, intensity, inwardness, kick, lustiness, medium, might, mightiness, muscle, muscularity, pith, potency, power, prowess, punch, sinews, snap, stamina, strength, stringency, tenacity, thews, tuck, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, vinegar, violence, virility, virtue, virulence, vis, volume, zap, zip), хладнокръвие (calmness, composure, cool, coolness, equanimity, sangfroid, self possession), окуражавам (buck up, embolden, encourage, fortify, hearten, inspire, man, reman), ободрявам (animate, brighten, bring round, buck up, cheer up, comfort, elevate, exhilarate, hearten, inspirit, invigorate, key up, lighten, liven up, pull round, reanimate, refresh, set up, spirit, stir up trouble, uplift), нерв (fiber, fibre), нахалство (arrogance, cheek, contumely, crust, face, front, gall, impertinence, insolence, lip, mouth, neck, presumption, sauciness, temerity, uppishness), мъжество (courage, fearlessness, heart, pluck, prowess, virility), жилка (fiber, fibre, film, spice, strain, streak, stria, thread, tinge, vein), дързост (arrogance, assumption, audacity, cheek, contumely, daring, forwardness, hardihood, hardiness, impudence, intrepidity, pluck, sauce, temerity, uppishness), давам сила на, давам кураж на. (various references)

Catalan

nervi. (various references)

Chinese 

膽量 , 神�" , 神经 (nerves). (various references)

Czech

nerv (exciter, vein), odvaha (boldness, courage, daring, doughtiness, grit, guts, high spirits, mettle, spirit, spunk, valor, valour), drzost (audacity, brass, cheek, effrontery, face, front, impertinence, impudence, insolence, rudeness, sauce), dodat si odvahy (pluck up one's courage, take courage, take heart), žilka (rib, string, vein), žebro (rib). (various references)

Danish

nerve (nervus). (various references)

Dutch

zenuw (nervus). (various references)

Esperanto

nervo. (various references)

Faeroese

nerv. (various references)

Farsi 

پی (Inkling, Scent, Sinew, Substratum), نیروبخشیدن , قوت قلب دادن , قدرت (Authority, Godown, Might, Posse, Potency, Power, Rod, Sovereignty, Vim, Vis, Zing), وتر (Cord, Hypotenuse, Sinew, Tendon), عصب (Chord), طاقت (Gut, Lip, Patience, Stamina, Sufferance), رشته عصبی . (various references)

Finnish

jäntevyys (muscularity, vigour), jänne (chord, cord, sinew, string, tendon), hermo. (various references)

French

nerf (nervus). (various references)

Frisian

sine (sinew, string, tendon), senuw. (various references)

German

Nerv (sinew, vein). (various references)

Greek 

νεύρο (sinew). (various references)

Hebrew 

מרץ (drive, energy, force, liveliness, rigour, sap, sinew, snap, spirit, steam, strength, verve, vigour, vim), לעו�"�" (cheer, cheer up, embolden, encourage, hearten, invigorate, keep in countenance, man, spirit, strengthen), לאמץ (encourage, strenghen), לאזור כח (gather strength, nerve oneself), אמץ (courage, pertness, stoutness, strength, virtue), חוזק (force, impregnability, intensity, might, strength), �"עז�" (audacity, bravado, daring, hazard, impertinence, insolence, temerity, venture), �'י�" (penis, sinew, tendon, vein). (various references)

Hungarian

magabiztosság (assertiveness, cock-sureness, confidence, panache, self-assertion, self-assurance, self-confidence), ideg, bátorság (audaciousness, audacity, boldness, bravado, bravery, courage, dutch courage, fearlessness, fortitude, gallantry, heroism, high spirits, manhood, pluck, prowess, spunk, valor, valour), vakmerőség (audaciousness, audacity, derring-do, foolhardiness, recklessness, temerity, venture), erezet (network, rib, streak, swirl, tracery, vein), ín (leader, sinew, tendon). (various references)

Icelandic

taug (cord, rope, string). (various references)

Indonesian

syaraf, saraf, kegelisahan (concern, discomfort, disquiet, nervousness, perturbation, unrest, worry), asabat (muscle, sinew). (various references)

Italian

nervo (vein). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

胆力 (courage, grit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

た�"りょく (courage, grit), し�"けい (sensitivity), きもったま (courage, guts, pluck, spirit), どきょう (bravery, courage, grit, guts, pluck, sutra chanting), ゆうき (boldness, bravery, courage, definite period or term, departed soul, evocation, evoke, ghost, organic, revenant, spirit, valour). (various references)

Korean 

� 경 (nerves, Nervous, Neural, neuron, Neurotic). (various references)

Manx

niartaghey (affirm, affirmation, brace, building up, cement, confirm, confirmation, consolidate, consolidation, documentation, extend, fortification, fortify, intensify, invigorate, reinforce, reinforcement, stiffen, strengthen), nearag, feh (sinew, tendon), cur creeaght da, asney (fin, rib, timber). (various references)

Papiamen

nervio. (various references)

Pig Latin

ervenay.(various references)

Portuguese

nervo (energy, rib, web). (various references)

Romanian

nerv (go, hysterics), neobrãzare (boldness, cheek, contumely, flippancy, immodesty, neck), tupeu (gumption, gut), temeritate (daring, foolhardiness, temerity), sânge rece (cold blood, cold-bloodedness, phlegm, self possession, self-command, temper), ridica moralul (cheer), putere (authority, backbone, capacity, degree, depth, energy, force, greatness, hold, in, jurisdiction, keenness, masterdom, mastery, measure, might, mightiness, pith, potency, power, puissance, punch, reign, resistance, right, rulership, sap, stamina, steam, strength, sturdiness, sway, vigor, vigorousness, vigour, vim), obrãznicie (audacity, blunder, brass, break, cheek, coolness, forwardness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, lip, naughtiness, perkiness, pertness, sauce, trespass, unruliness), forţã (drive, energy, force, greatness, influence, locomotive power, measure, might, mightiness, potency, power, punch, sinew, strength, stress, vigor, vigour, vim, violence, weight), energie (activity, backbone, bottom, briskness, drive, energy, force, gimp, go, gumption, might, pep, pepper, peppiness, pith, pithiness, power, punch, sap, snap, soul, spirit, spunk, strength, vigor, vigour, vim, virtue, zip), curaj (boldness, bravery, chins up, come on, courage, fearlessness, fortitude, gallantry, go, grit, gut, hardihood, manliness, pluck, recklessness, spirit, spunk, stomach, stoutness, valor, valour), întãri (bind, bond, brace, bracket, confirm, consolidate, corroborate, enforce, entrench, fix, fortify, harden, indurate, invigorate, recruit, reinforce, screw, season, stay, steady, steel, stiffen, strengthen, stress, tone up), încuraja (buck up, cheer, countenance, elate, embolden, encourage, fire, hearten, inspire, inspirit, key up, pep, promote, reassure, stimulate, stomach, support, uphold), îmbãrbãta (encourage, recomfort, shout on). (various references)

Russian 

сила (arm, efficacy, energy, force, force of, forcefulness, libido, lustiness, might, pitch, pith, potency, power, strength, strengths, vehemence, vigor, vigour, vim, violence, virtue), хладнокровие (cold blood, composure, coolness, recollection, sangfroid, self possession), нерв нервный, нерв, нахальство (cheek, chutzpah, cool cheek, impertinence), наглость (assuredness, audaciousness, chutzpah, effrontery, face, hardihood, immodesty, impertinence, impudence, insolence, sauce, snoutiness), мужество (doughtiness, fortitude, guts, pluck, sand, spunk), присутствие духа (presence of mind, recollection), придавать силу (potentiate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nerv, snažiti, krepiti, hrabrost (bravery, courage, doughtiness, fortitude, gallantry, gut, hardihood, heart, mettle, morale, pluck, sportsmanship, spunk, valor, valour), drskost (arrogance, audaciousness, brash, effrontery, forwardness, impertinence, impudence, lip, petulance, presumption, temerity), živac. (various references)

Spanish

nervio (fiber, fibre, rib, sinew, stamina). (various references)

Swahili

neva. (various references)

Swedish

nerv (vein), fräckhet (audacity, brass, cheek, cheekiness, coolness, face, front, gall, impudence, insolence, moxie, rudeness, sauce, wickedness). (various references)

Thai

เส้นประสาท, ความกล้า (bottle, gall, guts). (various references)

Turkish

asap. (various references)

Turkmen 

nerw (r), damar (artery, vein). (various references)

Ukrainian

набратися духу, бадьорість (freshness, greenness, liveliness, pep), енергія (activity, bang, birr, dash, energy, might, oomph, punch, push, sappiness, spring, vim, whiz, whizz, will, zap, zest), зібратися з силами (brace oneself up), зухвалість (assuredness, audacity, barefacedness, chat, cheek, effrontery, forwardness, hardiness, immodesty, impertinence, lip, neck, outrecuidance), мужність (bravery, courage, machismo, manhood, manliness, masculinity, mettle), мускул (muscle), надавати мужності, прожилка, надавати сили (invigorate), сухожилля (sinew, tendon), нахабство (assurance, audacity, barefacedness, chat, cheek, contumely, effrontery, hardihood, insolence, insolency, neck, sauce), нерв, нерви, нервова система, нервовість (fussiness, nervosity, nervousness), тятива (bow-string), холоднокровність (cold-bloodedness, composure, cool, coolness, equanimity, sobriety), сила (agency, cloud, efficacy, force, iron, muscle, pith, potence, potency, power, strength, vehemence, vigor, vigour, wealth), надавати рішучості. (various references)

Vietnamese 

trạng thái thần kinh kích động khí lực, khu vực trung tâm, khí phách (gut), dũng khí (heart, sportsmanship), can đảm (brave, courageous, high-hearted, manly, prow, stout-hearted, valiant), bộ phận đầu não điềm tĩnh, điềm đạm (even-minded, even-tempered, level, level-headed, sober-minded, staid). (various references)

Welsh

nerf. (various references)

neuron. (various references)

nervi, nervicis, nervo, nervos, nervosus, nervum, nervus. (various references)

nervus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "nerve": nerved, nerveless, nervelessly, nervelessness, nervelessnesses, nerves. (additional references)

Words ending with "nerve": innerve, unnerve. (additional references)

Words containing "nerve": innerved, innerves, unnerved, unnerves. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nerve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Berve, erve, nairver, narf, Narvaez, narvel, Neeva, Neeve, Neiva, neive, Nere, Nereo, nerf, nerv, nerva, nerver, nervet, nervey, Nervi, Nervii, nervo, Neuva, neuve, neva, nevea, neven, nevez, Nevruz, nieve, nire, nirve, nirvs, nivr, norvex, Novre, nurve, perve, rerve, terve, unervee, werve, zerve. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: never.

-1 letter: erne, even, ever, neve, veer.

-2 letters: ere, ern, eve, nee, ree, rev, vee.

-3 letters: en, er, ne, re.

+1 letter: envier, evener, nerved, nerves, veiner, vender, veneer, venery, venire, venter.

+2 letters: avenger, cervine, enfever, engrave, enviers, eveners, fervent, innerve, inverse, livener, nervate, nervier, nervine, nervule, nervure, overmen, overnew, prevent, ravened, ravener, reeving, regiven, revenge, revenue, rewoven, unnerve, unreeve, veering, veiners, veinier, venders, veneers, venires, venomer, venters, venture, verbena, vernier, versine, veteran.

+3 letters: antevert, avengers, averment, caverned, cheveron, conserve, convener, converge, converse, conveyer, cravened, endeavor, enervate, enfevers, engraved, engraver, engraves, enslaver, eversion, everting, everyman, everymen, everyone, fervency, fevering, governed, innerved, innerves, inventer, inverses, inverted, inverter, lavender, levanter, levering, liveners, maneuver, nerviest, nervines, nervules, nervures, ovenware, overdone, overkeen, overlend, overlent, overmine, overnear, overneat, overnice, overseen, oversewn, overtone, overween, parvenue, prevents, raveners, reconvey, redriven, reinvade, reinvent, reinvest, reinvite, reinvoke, relevant, renovate, replevin, reshaven, revanche, revehent, reveling, revenant, revenged, revenger, revenges, revenual, revenued, revenuer, revenues, reverend, reverent, revering, riverine, severing, sirvente, sniveler, taverner, unevener, universe, unnerved, unnerves, unreeved, unreeves, unserved, unversed, veneered, veneerer, venerate, venereal, veneries, venomers, ventured, venturer, ventures, verbenas, verboten, verecund, vergence, vernacle, vernicle, verniers, vernixes, verseman, versemen, versines, veterans, vineries, viperine, vomerine, whenever.