Exert

Definitions: Exert

Exert

Verb

1. Put to use; "exert one's power or influence".

2. Of power or authority.

3. Make a great effort at a mental or physical task; "exert oneself".

Date "exert" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Exert \Ex*ert"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Exerted; present participle verb or noun Exerting.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Exert

Synonyms: exercise (v), maintain (v), wield (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Exertion	Verb: exert oneself; exert one's energies, tax one's energies; use exertion.
Government	Verb: govern, rule, have authority, hold authority, possess authority, exercise authority, exert authority, wield authority; Noun: reign, be sovereign.
Physical Energy	Verb: give -energy; Noun: energize, stimulate, kindle, excite, exert; sharpen, intensify; inflame; (render violent); wind up; (strengthen).
Use	Ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Ooh, I have to win money to exert my power over women. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The proper conduct of business requires every ounce of leadership that it is possible to exert.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
George Eliot	People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
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Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	If we exert ourselves, I think we shall not be long in want of allies.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Biofeedback is a learning technique to exert better voluntary control over urine storage. (references)
		In contrast, nicotine can also exert a sedative effect, depending on the level of the smoker's nervous system arousal and the dose of nicotine taken. (references)
		Because of the progressive character of AD, it often happens that increasing caregiving involvement eventually comes to exert these kinds of consequences. (references)
Business		As Sick Funds seek to exert greater influence on prescribing practices and to reduce abuse of the reimbursement system, it is expected that treatment standards, guidelines and drug formularies will be increasingly employed. (references)
Civil Liberties	Lebanon	Although the Government does not censor broadcasts directly, government officials exert pressure on journalists to practice self-censorship. (references)
	Afghanistan	The Taliban reportedly required NGO's to undergo burdensome registration procedures to obtain permission to operate and attempted to exert control over NGO staffing and office locations, especially in Kabul. (references)
	Pakistan	Local police, political parties, ethnic, sectarian, and religious groups, militant student organizations, and occasionally commercial interests exert undue pressure on newspapers to carry their statements or press releases. (references)
Economic History	Belgium	They exert a strong influence in the country -- politically and socially. (references)
	Spain	The main reason for the strikes was to exert pressure while negotiating collective agreements. (references)
	Burma	The SPDC has continued to exert a heavy hand in the economy with a policy turning increasingly inward. (references)
Human Rights	Liberia	The executive branch continued to exert undue influence on the judiciary. (references)
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Some politicians and other powerful figures continued to exert influence on cases before the courts. (references)
	Sierra Leone	The RUF continued to detain persons illegally and exert control over the civilian population in certain areas of the country. (references)
Indigenous People	Malaysia	In May 2000, the Sarawak state assembly passed amendments to the state land code that the state government stated would increase the rights of indigenous people to exert control over their traditional lands. (references)
Political Economy	Yugoslavia	Police at times intimidated journalists, and the Government continued to exert influence over the media. (references)
	Ukraine	Concern also exists about possible Russian attempts to exert economic pressure on Ukraine in the trade area. (references)
Trade	Germany	The traditional German system of cross-share holding among banks and industry, as well as a high rate of bank borrowing relative to equity financing, have allowed German banks to exert substantial influence on industry in the past. (references)
Worker Rights	Iran	It serves primarily as a conduit for the Government to exert control over workers. (references)
	China	The departure of the Karmapa added to tensions and increased the authorities' efforts to exert control over the process for finding and educating reincarnated lamas. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Madison	1809-1817	Under the ominous indications which commanded attention it became a duty to exert the means committed to the executive department in providing for the general security.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	All experience proves that oppressive debt is the bane of enterprise, and it should be the care of a republic not to exert a grinding power over misfortune and poverty.
Martin van Buren	1837-1841	How imperious, then, is the obligation imposed upon every citizen, in his own sphere of action, whether limited or extended, to exert himself in perpetuating a condition of things so singularly happy!
James Buchanan	1857-1861	Let every Union-loving man, therefore, exert his best influence to suppress this agitation, which since the recent legislation of Congress is without any legitimate object.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Exert" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 77.24% of the time. "Exert" is used about 535 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	77.24%	414	13,664
Lexical Verb (base form)	22.76%	122	29,069
Total	100.00%	535	N/A

Expressions using "exert": exert an influence ♦ exert effort ♦ exert every effort ♦ exert influence ♦ exert oneself ♦ exert oneself to maintain ♦ exert pressure ♦ exert pressure on ♦ To exert one's self. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "exert": over-exert.
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Language		Translations for "exert"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		beoefen (practice). (various references)

Albanian		tendos (draw, strain, stretch, subtend, tauten, tense, tighten, wrack), shfaq (bear, display, evince, exhibit, flash, indicate, manifest, outspeak, pour out, present, proclaim, profess, put on, read off, show, testify), përpiqem (aim, attempt, bang, endeavor, endeavour, essay, exert oneself, offer, pretend, seek, strive, take trouble, try), bëj përpjekje (exert oneself). (various references)

Arabic		‏جهد (dint, effort, exertion, labor, labour, overload, overstrain, overwork, pain, pressure, spirt, spurt, strain, stress, tension, worry), ‏بذل (do, extend, spend). (various references)

Bulgarian		упражнявам (drill, exercise, pace, ply, practice, practise, profess, pursue, rehearse, train), напрягам (bend, call forth, hump, intensify, overstrain, rack, strain, string up, tense). (various references)

Chinese		施� (Exerted, Exerting, Exertion). (various references)

Czech		vykonávat (administer, dispense, exercise, follow, go about, practise), projevit (demonstrate, display, exhibit, manifest, offer, vent), použít (avail oneself of, dispose, employ, make use of, to use, use, utilize), èinit (amount, be, come to, do, total). (various references)

Danish		praktisere (practice). (various references)

Dutch		betrachten (practice), beoefenen (practice). (various references)

Esperanto		praktiki (practice). (various references)

Farsi		نشان دادن (Actuate, Ante, Demonstrate, Display, Evince, Illustrate, Index, Indicate, Introduce, Point, Register, Run, Show), اعمال کردن (Apply), اجراکردن (Administer, Apply, Effect, Enforce, Execute, Perform), بکاربردن (Apply, Handle, Put, Use). (various references)

Finnish		ponnistaa (make an effort, strain, strive, struggle, take off), pinnistää (strain), käyttää (apply, consume, drive, employ, exercise, make use of, operate, run, spend, turn to account, use, wear, work). (various references)

French		exercer (exercise, to exercise), pratiquer, déployer (extend). (various references)

German		gebrauchen (apply, be of use, be useful, disusenichtmehr, employ, make use of, ply, turn to account, use, utilize), anwenden (apply, bring to bear, employ, make use of, operate, practice, to deploy, to employ, turn to account, use, utilize), bemühen (bestir, bother, effort, efforts, endeavor, endeavors, endeavour, endeavours, engage, trouble). (various references)

Greek		ασκώ (drill, exercise, practise, pursue, wield). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"תאמץ (be at pains, endeavor, endeavour, exert oneself, strain, strive, struggle, take trouble, tug), ל�"שת�"ל (aim, attempt, endeavor, endeavour, exert oneself, make an effort, try). (various references)

Hungarian		igyekszik (be at pains, make for, striven, strove, to aim, to exert, to hurry, to mosey, to strive, to struggle), hatást gyakorol (impinge, to impinge on, to impress, to take effect), használ (do good to, employ, make use of, spend, to apply, to avail, to employ, to exert, to ply, to use, turn to account, use, utilize). (various references)

Indonesian		mengusahakan (cultivate, go about). (various references)

Italian		praticare (associate with, exercise, follow, frequent, make, practice, practise, put into practice). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		努める (to exert oneself, to make great effort, to try hard), 務める (to, to exert oneself, to fill a post, to serve, to serve under). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		およぼす (to cause, to exercise, to exert), きばる (to go all out, to strain or exert oneself), ふるう (to exert, to shake, to show, to tremble, to vibrate, to wield), つとめる (to be diligent, to endeavor, to exert oneself, to fill a post, to play, to serve, to serve under, to work), ほねおる (to exert oneself greatly, to take pains), せい� す (to exert oneself), かちとる (to exert oneself and win, to gain, to obtain, to secure, to win), りきむ (to bear up, to bluff, to boast, to exert one's strength, to strain, to swagger), み�'いれる (to devote oneself to, to exert oneself), ちから�'つくす (to exert oneself, to make efforts). (various references)

Korean		발휘하십시�". (various references)

Malay		mempelajari (practice, study). (various references)

Manx		strepey (exertion, flounder, grapple, strive, struggle, tug, tussle, wallow). (various references)

Norwegian		bruke (use), anstrenge, øve. (various references)

Papiamen		praktiká (practice). (various references)

Pig Latin		exertay

Portuguese		exercer (exercise, practice, practise, prosecute). (various references)

Romanian		exercita (execute, exercise, wield). (various references)

Russian		вызывать (bring, bring about, bring forth, call, call in, challenge, cite, conjure, engender, entail, evoke, evoked, give rise to, induce, involve, produce, provoke, ring for, summon, whistle up), напрячь (strain), напрягать (bend, rack, strain, stretch), прилагать (annex, append, apply). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vršiti (administer, do, perform, practice, practise, pursue), naprezati se (stress). (various references)

Spanish		ejercer (bear, exercise, manage, perform, ply, practice, practise, profess, prosecute, pursue, run, serve, to exercise, use, wield). (various references)

Swedish		utöva (exercise, follow, keep one's hand in, practise, pursue, wield). (various references)

Thai		ใช้อำนาจ (ไปกระทบบางคนหรือบางสิ่ง). (various references)

Turkish		uygulamak (administer, apply, carry out, complete, deploy, dispense, enforce, exercise, fulfil, fulfill, impart, implement, perform, practise, put into practice, realize), kullanmak (apply, call forth, dispose, dispose of, draw on, drive, employ, engage, exploit, handle, harness, head, lay on, make use of, operate, pilot, ply, put account, ride, roll, run, take advantage of, turn to account, use, utilize, wield), harcamak (consume, dally away, employ, expend, lay out, put forth, put out, spend, spin out, swallow up, use up, waste). (various references)

Turkmen		emgenmek (exert oneself, toil, work hard). (various references)

Ukranian		виявляти (bespeak, demonstrate, detect, disclose, discover, display, educe, elicit, evince, evolve, find, show, uncover, vent), напружувати (apply, bend, put forth, strain, string up, tauten, tension). (various references)

Welsh		ymegni%o (exert oneself). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	intendatis, intende, intendebant, intendebat, intendens, intendentes, intendere, intenderent, intenderunt, intendet, intendisset, intendit, intendite, intenditis, intendunt, intenta, intentae, intente. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "exert": exerted, exerting, exertion, exertions, exertive, exerts. (additional references)
	Words ending with "exert": coexert, overexert. (additional references)
	Words containing "exert": coexerted, coexerting, coexerts, overexerted, overexerting, overexertion, overexertions, overexerts. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Exert" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: axer, Ecerit, eerit, Eerst, egert, Eggert, Ekert, Elert, enert, Ewert, exar, Exarch, exat, excer, excert, exeat, exept, exer, exera, exerp, exerpt, Exerptum, exerte, exir, exirs, exors, exort, exprt, exr, exrat, exrest, exur, exurt, exzerpt, oxer. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "exert" (pronounced igzer"t)
3	-z er" t	dessert.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-r-t-x"
	-1 letter: rete, tree.
	-2 letters: ere, ree, ret, rex, tee.
	-3 letters: er, et, ex, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-r-t-x"
	+1 letter: dexter, exerts, expert, exsert, extern, vertex.
	+2 letters: coexert, exacter, exalter, excerpt, exciter, excreta, excrete, exerted, experts, exserts, externe, externs, extrema, extreme, extrude, pretext, retaxed, retaxes, texture.
	+3 letters: axletree, coexerts, cortexes, dextrine, dextrose, exacters, exalters, excerpts, exciters, excretal, excreted, excreter, excretes, execrate, executer, executor, exerting, exertion, exertive, exhorted, exhorter, exoteric, experted, expertly, exported, exporter, exserted, extender, extensor, exterior, external, externes, extoller, extorted, extorter, extremer, extremes, extremum, extrorse, extruded, extruder, extrudes, heretrix, inexpert, interrex, intersex, preexist, pretexts, reexport, textured, textures, unexpert, vertexes, vortexes.
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