Surgical removal or severing of a nerve.
1 The Demonz were circling us slowly now, nerving themselves up to attack.
2 Wolf-hunter was now in his glory, nerving his muscular frame for battle.
3 He had been nerving himself during a long slow silence for that.
4 Diaz, clearly nerving himself to question her orders, suddenly stared at his display.
5 He was up in a second, dire peril nerving him to desperate effort.
6 But for the moment the discovery, instead of nerving him, inflamed his wrath.
7 Hiram sat nerving himself, his distress accentuating the stern strength of his features.
8 She waited while he trotted forward, nerving himself to face the crowd again.
9 Suddenly he stood still, nerving his spirit to some awful question.
10 After nerving himself for days to ask permission, he had been refused flatly.
11 Slowly nerving himself, he finished his descent and walked boldly toward the kitchen.
12 She was nerving herself up for either fight or flight.
13 Tolton waited for a moment, nerving himself to step out.
14 I think you have been now some years nerving your mind to the exertion.
15 While he was nerving himself to go through with it, he heard a gunshot.
16 They were nerving themselves to hear the crack of a gun at any instant.
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