Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

held one's nerve

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English

Syllables
held one's n-erve
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

Questions

What does held one's nerve mean?
simple past and past participle of hold one's nerve

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