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Meaning exert meaning

What does exert mean?

exert

— verb put to use exert one's power or influence — verb (= wield) have and exercise wield power and authority — verb make a great effort at a mental or physical task exert oneself

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exercise strive wield try strain practice use struggle make an effort attempt maintain endeavour endeavor apply work hard struggle for put forth one’s strength practise make effort employ work turn on try hard treat train toil throw tense take trouble take pains take swing strive after stress strain oneself stand firm spend render reach put into practice put forth push prosecute ply operate mobilize lavish labour labor knuckle down

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Grammar General words

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Conjugation exert conjugation

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exert · verb

Examples exert examples

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Simple sentences

Tom shouldn't exert himself.
They exert pressure on them.
You don't exert yourself much.
You should exert yourself to get better results.
Don't exert yourself.
Your sense of humor is beginning to exert itself.

Movie subtitles

Why, I wouldn't want you to exert yourself.
I don't want to exert the authority of my office.
Don't exert yourself.
Mother, you know the doctor told you not to exert yourself.
Oh! I don't exert.
I have, with what's left in my tank and one reserve cylinder, enough oxygen for. oh, about 60 hours. depending, of course, on how much I exert myself.
That is, of course, if we just sit here and don't exert ourselves in any way.
Only if I excite or exert myself.
I'm coughing, I mustn't exert myself.
Exert every effort to crush the enemy and defend our islands.
Never more exert a profession that forces to me to deal with people like you.
The faster ones get away because he's too lazy to exert himself but the smaller and slower ones are in constant danger.
Now you can exert your own personality up to the hilt.
But he will exert no pressure nor be present at the debates.
Don't exert yourself - your mind will dry up anyway in this barren land!
Don't exert yourself, Stanley.
Now that the French marriage has ended, she begs you to exert your influence with King Henry.
Anything that can exert such tremendous pressure on the spinal column. must be something you can see, touch, hold in your hand.
You must exert a strong influence on her.
Mustn't exert yourself.
Now. Mustn't exert yourself.
In the hospital. Now. Mustn't exert yourself.
In order to be in charge, you have to be able to. exert authority, and I've never been any good at that.
You're out of breath. you know you shouldn't over-exert yourself.
We can exert short bursts of enormous gravitational pull on the star, slow it up while you weave your eggshell round it and then let go.
The ability to exert a force at a distance?
A thing you can't see can exert pressure can frustrate my wish to fill this vessel with water if I were dumb enough to leave my thumb on the neck.
Since the neutrons exert nuclear forces but not electrical forces they are a kind of glue which holds the atomic nucleus together.
The doctor said he must not exert himself.
At the time of the Federation's collapse, the Doctor was developing a new space drive system that used light to exert thrust instead of plasma.
Norman, I thought you were in too much pain to exert yourself.
This is just a sample of the pressure I can exert.
Try not to exert yourself.

News and current affairs

The voter-turnout problem partly reflects frustration about the present state of the EU, and also people's impression that they can exert little influence by voting one way or the other.
Other presidential appointees exert considerable influence on firms, industries, or the entire economy.
Some European governments have evolved strong human rights polices but, for a variety of reasons, they have been unable, individually or collectively, to exert the influence of the US.
It is very likely that, in the short term, growing imports of expensive liquid natural gas and other fuels will continue to exert pressure for change.
Like the bear that learned to fill his stomach comfortably, they feel satisfied to be entertained without having to exert themselves.
In the long run, the UK risks serious isolation if the euro zone starts to exert even greater power.
The specialist MEPs, on the other hand, use their expertise and their steadily increasing powers to exert a good deal of influence on EU legislation.
As for global security, it is clear that EU countries can exert international influence only when they speak with one voice.
One strategy for neutralizing local politics can be seen in Party attempts to exert greater influence through the installation of Party officials as heads of village committees.
The dominant actors - Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards - will continue to exert potentially decisive influence.
No one today has been able to exert authority systematically and consistently, and there is no officially sanctified and controlled international currency.
Paradoxically, whereas the Western powers are probably powerless in Ukraine, Latin America's major players could exert great influence in Venezuela.
When markets are in a euphoric state, they are in no position to exert discipline on any borrower, let alone a government with a reasonable credit rating.
The sad thing about the power that Poland's peasants now exert is that theirs is a wholly negative one.
Moreover, slow growth in the advanced economies need not exert a drag on developing countries' performance.
We can have no idea in advance how a 25-member EU will really operate; practical realities will exert their influence on political chemistry.
On both issues, there is little capacity to exert force or sufficient pressure for solutions any time soon.
The United States and Europe have issued strong statements condemning the crackdown and calling upon Myanmar's neighbors, especially India and China, to exert their influence on the regime.
But Serbia's authorities, facing economic turmoil, cannot harbor him much longer if the United States and the European Union exert adequate pressure.
There is only one way to explain the US administration's decision to exert such diplomatic pressure in favor of Iran's favorite in Iraq: Obama's pledge during his presidential election campaign to disengage from Iraq during his first term.

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