unnerve

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

unnerve
    v 1: disturb the composure of [syn: {faze}, {unnerve},
         {enervate}, {unsettle}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Unnerve \Un*nerve"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + nerve.]
   To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to
   enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm.
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         Unequal match'd, . . .
         The unnerved father falls.               --Shak.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

74 Moby Thesaurus words for "unnerve":
      abate, affright, agitate, alarm, attenuate, blunt, castrate, cramp,
      cripple, crush, curdle the blood, damp, dampen, dash, deaden,
      debilitate, demasculinize, demoralize, desex, desexualize,
      devitalize, discomfit, disconcert, dismay, disquiet, dull,
      effeminize, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, etiolate, eviscerate,
      exhaust, extenuate, faze, fluster, fright, frighten, funk, gruel,
      horripilate, intimidate, knock down, lay low, make one tremble,
      mitigate, overcome, perturb, prostrate, psych out,
      raise apprehensions, rattle, reduce, ruffle, sap, scare, shake,
      shake up, soften up, spook, stagger, startle, sterilize, stun,
      stupefy, unbrace, undermine, undo, unman, unsettle, unstrengthen,
      unstring, upset, weaken