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Exert
EXERT', v.t. egzert'. [L. exero, for exsero; ex and sero, to throw, to thrust, for this is the radical sense of sero.]
1. Literally, to thrust forth; to emit; to push out.
Before the gems exert
Their feeble heads.
[An unusual application.]
2. To bring out; to cause to come forth; to produce. But more generally,
3. To put or thrust forth, as strength, force or ability; to strain; to put in action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body or limbs; to exert efforts; to exert powers or faculties; to exert the mind.
4. To put forth; to do or perform.
When the will has exerted an act of command
on any faculty of the soul.
To exert one's self, is to use efforts; to strive.
exert appears in definitions for these words:
Accomplish Achieve Achievement Achiever Act Action Active Activity Agency Agent Agonist Agony Alarm Angariation Arise Arouse Arousing Association Athletic Attain Attainment Attempt Attraction Auxiliary Averse Beat Bend Beneficent Bestor Blunt Cause Chop Common Constrain Cramp Creative Cripple Cruel Deliver Diligence Diligent Dint Do Draw Easily Easy Efforce Effort Elective Endeavor Energy Ens Essay Excess Exercisable Exercise Exercised Exercising Exert Exertion Exhaust Exhort Expedient Exsert Faint Falter Fatigue Favor Feebleness Flirt For Force Friendliness Give Gone Hand Heave Hight Hold Idleness Ill Immediate Inactivity Indefatigable Individual Indolence Indolently Inefficiency Inertion Inertness Inexertion Influence Influential Instinct Intemperance Intemperate Intemperately Intention Irritation Jade Labor Laboring Laborious Languid Languish Languor Lay Laziness Lazy Liberal Lift Light Little Loll Lustily Malignant Might Misapply Obtain Operate Operating Operation Operative Out Overply Overruling Patience Patient Philanthropist Power Powerful Powerfulness Preternatural Profit Prompt Proportion Puff Purpose Pursuance Put Raise Reap Relax Remembrance Repeat Resistance Rest Sally Sensation Sensory Slack Sleep Spend Spiritlessly Sprightliness Stimulate Stimulated Stimulating Strain Strained Straining Strength Stretched Stretching Strife Strive Striving Strong Struggling Subdue Summon Supernatural Support Surprisingly Sway Take The Throw Toil Torpent Torpid Trial Trump Try Trying Tug Tugging Unaptness Unbend Unbent Unduly Unexerted Unhindered Unremitting Verb Vigorous Vigorously Vigorousness Vitiate Vivid Wanting Weary Wing Withdrawment Work
Accomplish Achieve Achievement Achiever Act Action Active Activity Agency Agent Agonist Agony Alarm Angariation Arise Arouse Arousing Association Athletic Attain Attainment Attempt Attraction Auxiliary Averse Beat Bend Beneficent Bestor Blunt Cause Chop Common Constrain Cramp Creative Cripple Cruel Deliver Diligence Diligent Dint Do Draw Easily Easy Efforce Effort Elective Endeavor Energy Ens Essay Excess Exercisable Exercise Exercised Exercising Exert Exertion Exhaust Exhort Expedient Exsert Faint Falter Fatigue Favor Feebleness Flirt For Force Friendliness Give Gone Hand Heave Hight Hold Idleness Ill Immediate Inactivity Indefatigable Individual Indolence Indolently Inefficiency Inertion Inertness Inexertion Influence Influential Instinct Intemperance Intemperate Intemperately Intention Irritation Jade Labor Laboring Laborious Languid Languish Languor Lay Laziness Lazy Liberal Lift Light Little Loll Lustily Malignant Might Misapply Obtain Operate Operating Operation Operative Out Overply Overruling Patience Patient Philanthropist Power Powerful Powerfulness Preternatural Profit Prompt Proportion Puff Purpose Pursuance Put Raise Reap Relax Remembrance Repeat Resistance Rest Sally Sensation Sensory Slack Sleep Spend Spiritlessly Sprightliness Stimulate Stimulated Stimulating Strain Strained Straining Strength Stretched Stretching Strife Strive Striving Strong Struggling Subdue Summon Supernatural Support Surprisingly Sway Take The Throw Toil Torpent Torpid Trial Trump Try Trying Tug Tugging Unaptness Unbend Unbent Unduly Unexerted Unhindered Unremitting Verb Vigorous Vigorously Vigorousness Vitiate Vivid Wanting Weary Wing Withdrawment Work
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