Usually means: Apply or use force, effort.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Exert:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. exert: Merriam-Webster
  2. exert: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exert: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exert: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exert: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exert, exert: Wordnik
  7. exert: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. exert: Wiktionary
  9. exert: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exert: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exert: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Exert, exert: Dictionary.com
  13. exert: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. exert: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Exert: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. exert: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. exert: Rhymezone
  18. exert: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. exert: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. exert: FreeDictionary.org
  21. exert: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. exert: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. exert: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. exert: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exert: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (exert)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material; to bring to bear.
▸ verb:  (reflexive) To put in vigorous action.

Similar:
maintain, exercise, wield, enforce, work, bring into play, energize, purchase, play, press, more...

Opposite:
relax, rest, idle, neglect, ignore

Phrases:
exert yourself, exert effort, exert oneself, to exert one's self, to exert ones self, more...

Adjectives:
small, former, latter, general, over, great, few, current, liquid, particular, present

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Similar:
maintain, exercise, wield, enforce, work, bring into play, energize, purchase, play, press, more...

Opposite:
relax, rest, idle, neglect, ignore

Phrases:
exert yourself, exert effort, exert oneself, to exert one's self, to exert ones self, over exert, one may exert pressure, exert influence, to exert power over, exert power, to exert power upon something, more...

Adjectives:
small, former, latter, general, over, great, few, current, liquid, particular, present

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     gold,     crimson, more...



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