exert meaning
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US - VerbSGexertsPRexertingPT, PPexerted
- To put in vigorous action.
- I exerted myself in today's training.
- To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material.
- Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
- To put in vigorous action.
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- The Diaton tonometer measures the intrapalpebral IOP by exerting pressure on the peripheral cornea, outside the ablation, and on the sclerocorneal limbus.
- Eosinophils have long been traditionally thought to function solely as terminal effector cells in Th2 immune responses, including exerting helminthotoxic activity against parasites.
- Highly malignant MSDACs that were derived from metastatic sites exhibited CSC status and exerted robust tumorosphere formations ex vivo.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "exert" is a verb.