Verb
The word is derived from nip
of Nip
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . . Charles Dickens
The chill rain is falling, the nipped worm is crawling, The rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling For the Year; The blithe swallows are flown, and the lizards each gone To his dwelling;.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
This could have been nipped in the bud with one threat to revoke their tax-exempt status. Source: Internet
An icy uncertainty nipped at her. Source: Internet
All will have to be nipped in the bud otherwise the Palestinians will join the instability raging in the Arab/Muslim world. Source: Internet
A short header back gave Tom Corner the chance to chase and the Brewers’ top scorer nipped in ahead of gloveman Phillips, only to prod over the bar. Source: Internet