Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)An expenditure of physical or mental effort.

    Anstrengung, Kraftanstrengung, Anspannung

    уси́лиеusílije

    use of physical or mental energy; hard work

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Whether you will succeed or not depends upon your own exertions.

    Доб'єшся ти успіху чи ні залежить від твоїх власних зусиль. — ChickenKiev

  2. Success depends on your own exertions.

  3. After much exertion, he was exhausted.

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  4. Her face was beautifully flushed with her exertions, and she held her hand to her side.

  5. Our morning's exertions had been too much for my weak health, and I was tired out in the afternoon.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
the action of exerting:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the action of exerting:

Forms

plural: exertions
Singularexertion
Pluralexertions

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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