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Exert   /ɪgzˈərt/   Listen
Exert

verb
(past & past part. exerted; pres. part. exerting)
1.
Put to use.  Synonym: exercise.
2.
Have and exercise.  Synonyms: maintain, wield.
3.
Make a great effort at a mental or physical task.



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"Exert" Quotes from Famous Books



... You really are a very sad girl, and do not know how to take care of yourself.—To the post-office indeed! Mrs. Weston, did you ever hear the like? You and I must positively exert our authority." ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
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... necessity for instantly carrying out his orders, the getting of all things needed for the sick man snatched out of death, and all the confusion that rises when the whole being of a great household must exert its utmost strength in one direction, ...
— Taquisara • F. Marion Crawford
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... without repudiating the learning of the schools. But the influence of early education, his practical yet speculative intellect, his inextinguishable sympathies, his desire for usefulness, and possibly an unsubdued ambition to exert a greater influence would not allow him wholly to bury himself. He made long visits to the friends and habitations he had left, in order to stimulate their faith, relieve their necessities, and encourage them in works of ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume IV • John Lord
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... half hour required by the three girls for their dressing, Polly, in spite of her promise, added not a single word of regret or entreaty in spite of Esther's pleading looks and Mollie's outspoken demands that her sister exert her influence. Appearing utterly absorbed in her own costume and in admiring Esther's and Mollie's, ...
— The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill • Margaret Vandercook
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... India and Java. Independence from the Netherlands was granted in 1975. Five years later the civilian government was replaced by a military regime that soon declared a socialist republic. It continued to exert control through a succession of nominally civilian administrations until 1987, when international pressure finally forced a democratic election. In 1990, the military overthrew the civilian leadership, but a democratically elected government - a four-party New Front coalition - returned to ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
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