Crossword clues for exert
exert
- Make use of
- Go all out
- Exercise, as influence
- Wield, as force
- Put forth, as strength
- Put forth, as energy
- Make a great effort
- Apply, as influence
- Apply, as elbow grease
- Apply force
- Wield (influence)
- Apply, as effort
- Vigorously strain
- Use, as power
- Use, as force
- Use up, as energy
- Show some effort
- Really strain
- Put out vigorously
- Put out (effort)
- Put forth, as power or influence
- Apply, as energy
- Work hard enough
- Wield, as strength
- Wield, as pressure
- Wield as influence
- Use, as great effort
- Put to use, as strength
- Put some muscle into
- Put out effort
- Put on, as pressure
- Put into vigorous action
- Put in action
- Put forth, like a mighty effort
- Put forth, as some effort
- Put forth vigorously
- Put forth strongly
- Labor with vigor
- Give, as effort
- Give one's all with
- Expend, as energy
- Expend energy
- Exercise vigorously
- Employ, as influence
- Employ with vigor
- Employ with effort
- Do with vigor
- Do with some force
- Cause (oneself) to make a strenuous effort
- Bring to bear, as power
- Bring to bear, as influence
- Apply, as muscle power
- Apply, as mental energy
- Apply with intensity
- Apply elbow grease
- Apply as force
- Wield, as influence
- Put out, as effort
- Strive
- Show some muscle
- Make an effort, ... oneself
- Bring to bear, as pressure
- Use, as influence
- Put forth, as effort
- Strain
- Push (oneself)
- Make, as an effort
- Use energetically
- Employ, as strength
- Exercise, as authority
- Put forth, in a way
- Put to work
- Apply, as pressure
- Apply with might
- Use with effort
- Spend, as energy
- Put into use
- Wield, as power
- Put out, as energy
- Apply, as force
- Put into action, as effort
- Put forth, as an effort
- Apply muscle power
- Put forth effort
- Use muscle power
- Use muscles
- Use one's power
- Nudge (oneself)
- Use extreme effort
- Try hard
- Employ muscle power
- Put forth muscle power
- Bear down
- Make an all-out effort
- Put forth strength
- Apply some muscle
- Apply energy
- Buckle down
- Apply strenuously
- ___ oneself (endeavor)
- Make a strenuous effort to disregard hint of presumption in scientific witness
- Apply to be specialist? No pressure!
- Consultant has no power to influence operation
- Exercise authority having taken lead on project
- Apply (pressure)
- Apply (a force)
- Specialist after releasing pressure put in effort
- Rodent casing area with horn-playing in lordly residence
- Apply for release, with royal taking place of politician
- Bring (force) to bear
- Bring into play
- Put to use, vigorously
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exert \Ex*ert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exerted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exerting.] [L. exertus, exsertus, p. p. of exerere, exserere, to thrust out; ex out + serere to join or bind together. See Series, and cf. Exsert.]
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To thrust forth; to emit; to push out. [Obs.]
So from the seas exerts his radiant head The star by whom the lights of heaven are led.
--Dryden. To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice.
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To put forth, as the result or exercise of effort; to bring to bear; to do or perform.
When we will has exerted an act of command on any faculty of the soul or member of the body.
--South.To exert one's self, to use efforts or endeavors; to strive; to make an attempt.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To put in vigorous action. 2 To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material.
WordNet
Usage examples of "exert".
In accomplishing this end, his age, the regard in which he was held by all classes of people, his known disinterestedness and independence, fitted him to exert a large influence.
The fatal moment was perhaps approaching, when some licentious youth, or some jealous tyrant, would abuse, to the destruction, that absolute power, which they had exerted for the benefit of their people.
Far from requiring further tutelage and inspiration from the West, the Japanese now stand among the leaders in international architecture, and architecture has become an aspect of Japanese culture that has exerted great influence on the world outside Japan.
The more she exerted herself to bend his resolution, and the more scope she gave to the unstudied expression of her artless sentiments, the more inextricably was the magician caught, and the more firm and inexorable was his purpose.
This is a most valuable astringent and exerts a specific action upon the nervous system.
In spite of a great momentary appearance of frankness and a lively relish of any conjunction of agreeable circumstances exerting a pressure to which one could respond, Bernard had really little taste for giving himself up, and he never did so without very soon wishing to take himself back.
But Orogastus exerted his magical powers to steady the bridge, and bespoke the fronials in reassurance.
Allowing him consciousness and intentions, as we must, what object could he have either in exerting his creative power or in sending out portions of himself in new individuals, save the production of so many immortal personalities of will, knowledge, and love, to advance towards the perfection of holiness, wisdom, and blessedness, filling his mansions with his children?
She had to exert quite a bit of energy to remain silent in the boomy metal air duct.
Miss de Bourgh exerted herself so far as to curtsey and hold out her hand to both.
While the Favorite Prescription exerts a tonic influence upon the digestive and nutritive functions, the Golden Medical Discovery acts upon the excretory glands.
This gave rise to much altercation and debate, especially among the lords, where the Earl of Chatham, Lord Camden, and others, who had long been the advocates of popular rights, vindicated the present exercise of royal prerogative, not on the plea of necessity but of right: arguing that a dispensing power was inherent in the crown, which might be exerted during the recess of parliament, but which expired whenever parliament reassembled.
De Maistre is right only as to the constitution the nation starts with, and as to the control which that constitution necessarily exerts over the constitutional changes the nation can successfully introduce.
Over the years he came to resemble a high hill covered in grass and shrubs and stunted trees, with here and there a portion of scale showing through, and the colossal head entirely emergent, unclothed by vegetation, engaging everything that passed before him with huge, slit-pupiled golden eyes, exerting a malefic influence over the events that flowed around him, twisting them into shapes that conformed to the cruel designs his discarnate intellect delighted in the weaving of and profited his vengeful will.
During the following year, on his cruise to the Mediterranean, he was messmate with a midshipman named William Taylor, a young man of singularly fine character, which seems to have been the chief cause of the influence he exerted upon Farragut.