outnerve

verb

outnerve

verb

Etymology From out- + nerve.

1

To show more nerve than.

Always one has to anticipate the others (or others') actions and try to outwit as well as outnerve and outskill the others.1990, Charles Hartshorne, The Darkness and the Light, page 97:

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