Usually means: Reduce effectiveness for game balance.
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  1. nerf: Merriam-Webster
  2. Nerf: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Nerf, nerf: Wordnik
  4. nerf: Wiktionary
  5. Nerf: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Nerf: Dictionary.com
  7. NERF, Nerf (Star Wars), Nerf (disambiguation), Nerf (video gaming), Nerf: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. nerf (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. Nerf: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. NERF: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nerf: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (NeRF)

verb:  (motor racing, transitive) To bump lightly, whether accidentally or purposefully.
verb:  (transitive, slang, video games) To change a mechanic, an ability or a character in a video game in order to make a previously dominant strategy less viable or less effective.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To arbitrarily limit or reduce the capability of.
noun:  (slang, video games) The deterioration, weakening or worsening of a character, a weapon, a spell, etc.
noun:  (computer graphics) Acronym of neural radiance field.

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