Exertion
noun
The action of making a physical or mental effort.
He looked pale from exertion after climbing the stairs.
Often appears as...
- physical exertion
- utmost exertion
noun
The energy required to do something.
Moving the furniture all day was an exertion she hadn't planned on.
Often appears as...
- any exertion
- too much exertion
noun
The action of making a physical or mental effort.
He looked pale from exertion after climbing the stairs.
Often appears as...
- physical exertion
- utmost exertion
noun
The energy required to do something.
Moving the furniture all day was an exertion she hadn't planned on.
Often appears as...
- any exertion
- too much exertion
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical or Mental
Exertion refers to effort that can be both physical, like running, or mental, like studying.
The mental exertion of preparing for exams left him exhausted.
Pro Tip 2/3Visible Signs
Exertion often shows visible signs, such as sweating or looking tired.
She wiped her brow, showing signs of exertion from the hike.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
The word can imply different levels of effort, from minimal to extreme.
He made an exertion to smile despite his nervousness.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical or Mental
Exertion refers to effort that can be both physical, like running, or mental, like studying.
The mental exertion of preparing for exams left him exhausted.
Pro Tip 2/3Visible Signs
Exertion often shows visible signs, such as sweating or looking tired.
She wiped her brow, showing signs of exertion from the hike.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
The word can imply different levels of effort, from minimal to extreme.
He made an exertion to smile despite his nervousness.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical or Mental
Exertion refers to effort that can be both physical, like running, or mental, like studying.
The mental exertion of preparing for exams left him exhausted.
Pro Tip 2/3Visible Signs
Exertion often shows visible signs, such as sweating or looking tired.
She wiped her brow, showing signs of exertion from the hike.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
The word can imply different levels of effort, from minimal to extreme.
He made an exertion to smile despite his nervousness.
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3 clues to understanding...
So if the amygdala is excited, and this is something important, the messages then cascade into the autonomic nervous system. Your heart starts beating faster. You start sweating to dissipate the heat that you're going to create from muscular exertion. And that's fortunate, because we can put two electrodes on your palm
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Why Military Veterans...
Corps my stress level since coming here has been very low actually getting out some physical exertion and they're just hanging out with fellow at night has been very helpful just shooting the breeze and talking about our experiences and learning about each other so I feel like this is a very good
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Brian Goldman: Doctors...
not far from here. And I memorized everything. I memorized in my anatomy class the origins and exertions of every muscle, every branch of every artery that came off the aorta, differential diagnoses obscure and common. I even knew the differential diagnosis
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The treadmill's dark and...
over 50 English prisons boasted a treadmill, and America, a similar amount. Unsurprisingly, the exertion combined with poor nutrition saw many prisoners suffer breakdowns and injuries, not that prison guards seemed to care.
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Tracy Chevalier: Finding...
I first wore it at an elaborate dinner her parents held in our honor. I knew even before I stood up to speak that my cheeks were inflamed. I have always flushed easily, from physical exertion, from wine, from high emotion.
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Inside the mind of a...
I want to say that their idea of jihad is wrong -- completely wrong -- as was mine, then. Jihad means to strive to one's utmost. It includes exertion and spirituality, self-purification and devotion.
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What Ping-Pong Taught Me...
And after an hour or so of furious exertion, I can honestly tell you that not knowing who has won feels like the ultimate victory. In Japan, it's been said,
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Orcas Kill, But Not Just...
food. It's really tough for you as an observer to see an animal going through so much stress and pain and overwhelming exertion,
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This Clown Philosopher...
Flavia cada una tormenta many card on Serena stringini exertion took a swim each time attention occupy universe
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A Photo Session With One...
exertions almost over with knocking down the tooth
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3 clues to understanding...
So if the amygdala is excited, and this is something important, the messages then cascade into the autonomic nervous system. Your heart starts beating faster. You start sweating to dissipate the heat that you're going to create from muscular exertion. And that's fortunate, because we can put two electrodes on your palm
Video examples
Why Military Veterans...
Corps my stress level since coming here has been very low actually getting out some physical exertion and they're just hanging out with fellow at night has been very helpful just shooting the breeze and talking about our experiences and learning about each other so I feel like this is a very good
Video examples
Brian Goldman: Doctors...
not far from here. And I memorized everything. I memorized in my anatomy class the origins and exertions of every muscle, every branch of every artery that came off the aorta, differential diagnoses obscure and common. I even knew the differential diagnosis
Video examples
The treadmill's dark and...
over 50 English prisons boasted a treadmill, and America, a similar amount. Unsurprisingly, the exertion combined with poor nutrition saw many prisoners suffer breakdowns and injuries, not that prison guards seemed to care.
Video examples
Tracy Chevalier: Finding...
I first wore it at an elaborate dinner her parents held in our honor. I knew even before I stood up to speak that my cheeks were inflamed. I have always flushed easily, from physical exertion, from wine, from high emotion.
Video examples
Inside the mind of a...
I want to say that their idea of jihad is wrong -- completely wrong -- as was mine, then. Jihad means to strive to one's utmost. It includes exertion and spirituality, self-purification and devotion.
Video examples
What Ping-Pong Taught Me...
And after an hour or so of furious exertion, I can honestly tell you that not knowing who has won feels like the ultimate victory. In Japan, it's been said,
Video examples
Orcas Kill, But Not Just...
food. It's really tough for you as an observer to see an animal going through so much stress and pain and overwhelming exertion,
Video examples
This Clown Philosopher...
Flavia cada una tormenta many card on Serena stringini exertion took a swim each time attention occupy universe
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A Photo Session With One...
exertions almost over with knocking down the tooth
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Thomas Huxley
English Scientist
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
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Gunnar Peterson
American Businessman
I usually suggest that people do their steady-state cardio on the days that they're not with me; they really don't need a cardio babysitter. When working with athletes, I try to pair the interval with the exertion patterns of their respective sport.
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John Stuart Mill
English Philosopher
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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Charles Buck
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.
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Robert Dale Owen
Scottish Politician
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Leader
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
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Chris Pine
American Actor
I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing eight shows on Broadway a week, I cannot even fathom it.
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Ralph Cudworth
British Theologian
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
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Rupert Murdoch
American Publisher
The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.
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Gerrit Smith
American Politician
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
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Thomas Huxley
English Scientist
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Quote examples
Gunnar Peterson
American Businessman
I usually suggest that people do their steady-state cardio on the days that they're not with me; they really don't need a cardio babysitter. When working with athletes, I try to pair the interval with the exertion patterns of their respective sport.
Quote examples
John Stuart Mill
English Philosopher
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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Charles Buck
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.
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Robert Dale Owen
Scottish Politician
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?
Quote examples
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Leader
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Quote examples
Chris Pine
American Actor
I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing eight shows on Broadway a week, I cannot even fathom it.
Quote examples
Ralph Cudworth
British Theologian
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
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Rupert Murdoch
American Publisher
The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.
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Gerrit Smith
American Politician
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
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