The steeplejack, exhausted and unnerved, couldn't hold on to his dangerous perch much longer. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object), : Fear unnerved him. From Dictionary.com.
When I saw the article in the Scene, the title unnerved me, "Manburner.". From Wordnik.com. [TCASK on the road (to abolition)] Reference
No wonder a word unnerved me; but I could not tell Mr. Hamilton this. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Max] Reference
And we remain unnerved by female ambition, accomplishment and authority. From Wordnik.com. [Still Under Cleopatra's Spell] Reference
She gazed directly at Cranmer with an expression that unnerved him. From Wordnik.com. [The Tudors: King Takes Queen] Reference
Piven admits to being "unnerved" by this recent wave of blog attacks and death threats triggered by Beck's incendiary rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Dreier: Glenn Beck's Attacks on Frances Fox Piven Trigger Death Threats] Reference
So it kind of unnerved me a bit to hear that I was now entering a period of several years of difficulties. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive Bloggers] Reference
Her constant calls unnerved him. From Wordnik.com. [The Position] Reference
"unnerved" after investigators found her body so quickly. From Wordnik.com. [News4Jax.com - Local News] Reference
"unnerved", since "it couldn't cope with the Palestinian resistance activists in the Gaza Strip battlefield.". From Wordnik.com. [Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll] Reference
Craig Donohue, has unnerved investors in the past. From Wordnik.com. [CME Inquiry Gets an Assist] Reference
I was constantly startled, unnerved, agitated exhausted. From Wordnik.com. [Hearing the Sweetest Songs] Reference
The feeling she got from them unnerved her for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.14: Arrivals] Reference
It unnerved him and comforted him all at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Man Loses Life] Reference
"We are all unnerved with the terrible accident of yesterday," says. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
But some pilots were clearly unnerved when the 737 didn't do as they expected. From Wordnik.com. [Unsolved Mystery] Reference
But even feminists are unnerved by the backlash, and unsure what to do about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Year Of The Smear] Reference
When I was a little girl, these stories unnerved me as much as the raids did her. From Wordnik.com. [Roots] Reference
Im even a bit unnerved to take her in the car in fear of getting into an accident. From Wordnik.com. ['If You Read You'll Judge'] Reference
She dared not yield to those tender recollections which might have unnerved her arm. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
He's unnerved and keeps looking at me in a way that makes me feel twitchy and unhinged. From Wordnik.com. [The Grief Benches] Reference
I won't reveal Flynn's surprises, but I promise you'll be thoroughly unnerved at the end. From Wordnik.com. [Snap Judgment: Books] Reference
I was so unnerved that I would have left right away, but I had to stop at the ladies 'room. From Wordnik.com. [OUT OF THE CANDLELIGHT AND INTO THE SPOTLIGHT] Reference
Even so, fellow senators are unnerved by Thurmond's nearly complete dependence on his staff. From Wordnik.com. [Strom Thurmond: Home On The Hill--Or Over It?] Reference
It unnerved me the way she reigned over the possessions before her with that penetrating gaze. From Wordnik.com. [Where is Love?] Reference
He couldn't overpower anyone, but he developed a game of clever slice shots that unnerved his foes. From Wordnik.com. [The Man And The Myth] Reference
She was more unnerved than usual, and she was conversing with Dorsenne in that corner of the long hall. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Again and again he felt himself becoming unnerved by the mud and the darkness and the idea of being hunted. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
With many more nominations inside the parliamentary party, David Miliband was frontrunner, but unnerved by his brother. From Wordnik.com. [Labour leadership race: Good for the candidates, bad for the party] Reference
Perhaps his secret soul, weakened and unnerved, may even be assailed by the suspicion that he is a feeble human creature after all!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Madame is a mystery to Kathy and the other students at Hailsham; she's powerful but clearly unnerved and even repulsed by the students. From Wordnik.com. [Lost In Translation] Reference
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