The Collaborative International Dictionary
Experience \Ex*pe"ri*ence\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Experienced ([e^]ks*p[=e]"r[i^]*enst); p. pr. & vb. n. Experiencing ([e^]ks*p[=e]"r[i^]*en*s[i^]ng).]
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To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views.
The partial failure and disappointment which he had experienced in India.
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To exercise; to train by practice.
The youthful sailors thus with early care Their arms experience, and for sea prepare.
--Harte.To experience religion (Theol.), to become a convert to the doctrines of Christianity; to yield to the power of religious truth.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of experience English)
Usage examples of "experiencing".
Wren collapsed she was experiencing a complex partial idiopathic seizure as she was clearly unable to respond to exogenous stimuli.
Boris felt that Pierre did not recognize him but did not consider it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the least embarrassment looked Pierre straight in the face.
I have settled on the upper floor of this big house and am experiencing a happy feeling of regeneration.
Napoleon was experiencing a feeling of depression like that of an ever-lucky gambler who, after recklessly flinging money about and always winning, suddenly just when he has calculated all the chances of the game, finds that the more he considers his play the more surely he loses.
Natasha, leaning on her elbow, the expression of her face constantly changing with the narrative, watched Pierre with an attention that never wandered- evidently herself experiencing all that he described.
The curly-headed, delicate boy sat with shining eyes unnoticed in a corner, starting every now and then and muttering something to himself, and evidently experiencing a new and powerful emotion as he turned his curly head, with his thin neck exposed by his turn-down collar, toward the place where Pierre sat.
After experiencing the ordeal of mortal childbirth I would gladly have done it the next time by any other means were it possible.
But no one lasts indefinitely, she thought, experiencing a twinge of anxiousness whilst acknowledging the inevitable.
She lifted him out, hugging him as fiercely as she had his sister, experiencing the same profound emotions of protectiveness and tender love.
Anthony said in a more composed voice, even though he was experiencing inner alarm at the thought of the gossip which had been rife in the village for months.
In a sense it helped to alleviate some of the depression and frustration she had been experiencing since her abortive attempt to talk to Jim before she had left England.
Paula asked, clasping her hands together, experiencing a stab of apprehension.
And then he asked himself how a doctor could treat the overwhelming grief and anguish she was experiencing, and he acknowledged miserably that he had no ready answers.
For an instant he contemplated pulling her to him, tasting her pouty lips, experiencing her heat.
For a moment I thought that I was perhaps experiencing sunlight as it was being refracted by my eyelashes.