Need another word that means the same as “exert”? Find 24 synonyms and 30 related words for “exert” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Exert” are: maintain, wield, exercise, bring to bear, apply, bring into play, employ, use, make use of, utilize, deploy, make an effort, try hard, strive, endeavour, apply oneself, do one's best, do all one can, do one's utmost, give one's all, make every effort, spare no effort, be at pains, put oneself out
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “exert” as a verb can have the following definitions:
apply | Apply oneself to. Apply a principle. |
apply oneself | Apply oneself to. |
be at pains | Have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun. |
bring into play | Bestow a quality on. |
bring to bear | Bring into a different state. |
deploy | Place troops or weapons in battle formation. Small states can often deploy resources more freely. |
do all one can | Engage in. |
do one's best | Create or design, often in a certain way. |
do one's utmost | Carry on or function. |
employ | Put into service make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose. Temporary staff can be employed to undertake the work. |
endeavour | Attempt by employing effort. He is endeavouring to help the Third World. |
exercise | Do physical exercise. Raise your knee to exercise the upper leg muscles. |
give one's all | Cause to happen or be responsible for. |
maintain | Maintain for use and service. He had persistently maintained that he would not stand against his old friend. |
make an effort | Gather and light the materials for. |
make every effort | Organize or be responsible for. |
make use of | Behave in a certain way. |
put oneself out | Attribute or give. |
spare no effort | Give up what is not strictly needed. |
strive | Attempt by employing effort. Scholars must strive against bias. |
try hard | Examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process. |
use | Habitually do something or be in a certan state or place use only in the past tense. She still used her maiden name professionally. |
utilize | Make practical and effective use of. Vitamin C helps your body utilize the iron present in your diet. |
wield | Hold and use (a weapon or tool. Faction leaders wielded enormous influence within the party. |
belabor | Beat soundly. She was belabored by her fellow students. |
catalyze | Change by catalysis or cause to catalyze. |
clout | A long distance shot that hits a clout. A clout round the ear. |
extrude | Shape (a material such as metal or plastic) by forcing it through a die. Extruded and die cast aluminium. |
gavel | Bring a hearing or person to order by use of a gavel. He gavelled the convention to order. |
hit | Hit against come into sudden contact with. He was the director of many big hits. |
impact | The striking of one body against another. There was the sound of a third impact. |
impinge | Impinge or infringe upon. Several factors impinge on market efficiency. |
implication | A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred. Our implication in the problems. |
impression | An impressionistic portrayal of a person. Her courtesy had made a good impression. |
influence | Have and exert influence or effect. Fiona was a good influence on her. |
jostle | Struggle or compete forcefully for. He was jostled by passengers rushing for the gates. |
leverage | Provide with leverage. Leverage the money that is already available. |
maintain | Maintain for use and service. He has always maintained his innocence. |
manage | Be the manager of a sports team or a performer. Blanche finally managed to hail a cab. |
militate | (of a fact or circumstance) be a powerful or conclusive factor in preventing. These fundamental differences will militate against the two communities coming together. |
moderating | Lessening in intensity or strength. |
pierce | Make an opening in or bore a tunnel through. The cold pierced her bones. |
predispose | Make susceptible. This illness predisposes you to gain weight. |
press | An act of pressing something. Press a record. |
pressure | The pressure exerted by the atmosphere. Backbenchers put pressure on the government to provide safeguards. |
punch | Drive forcibly as if by a punch. He punched me in the stomach. |
push | The force used in pushing. He pushed at the skylight but it wouldn t budge. |
pushing | The act of applying force in order to move something away. The pushing is good exercise. |
shove | Press or force. She shoved the books into her briefcase. |
suggestible | Susceptible or responsive to suggestion. Suggestible young minds. |
systemic | Denoting the part of the circulatory system concerned with the transport of oxygen to and carbon dioxide from the body in general, especially as distinct from the pulmonary part concerned with the transport of oxygen from and carbon dioxide to the lungs. The disease is localized rather than systemic. |
wangle | Tamper, with the purpose of deception. I wangled an invitation to her party. |
wield | Have and be able to use (power or influence. Faction leaders wielded enormous influence within the party. |
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