Crossword-Solution: EXERT 5 letters, 253 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Exert	v. t.	To thrust forth; to emit; to push out.
Exert	v. t.	To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice.
Exert	v. t.	To put forth, as the result or exercise of effort; to bring to bear; to do or perform.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
EXERT	anagram	EXTER, XETER

We have 253 clues for the answer “EXERT”

Clue	Answers
Act vigorously.	1 answer
Apply as force	1 answer
Apply a force	1 answer
Apply energy	1 answer
Apply intensely	1 answer
Apply muscle power	1 answer
Apply some muscle	1 answer
Apply strenuously	1 answer
Apply with intensity	1 answer
Apply with might	1 answer
Apply, as an effort	1 answer
Apply, as effort	1 answer
Apply, as elbow grease	1 answer
Apply, as energy	1 answer
Apply, as influence	1 answer
Apply, as mental energy	1 answer
Apply, as muscle power	1 answer
Apply, as pressure	1 answer
Apply, as pressure or effort	1 answer
BRING into active operation	1 answer
BRING to bear quality, force or influence	1 answer
Bring pressure.	1 answer
Bring to bear, as influence	1 answer
Bring to bear, as pressure	1 answer
Cause oneself to make a strenuous effort	1 answer
Display power	1 answer
Do with some force	1 answer
Do with vigor	1 answer
Employ muscle power	1 answer
Employ vigorously	1 answer
Employ with effort	1 answer
Employ with vigor	1 answer
Employ, as influence	1 answer
Employ, as strength	1 answer
Expend energy	1 answer
Expend, as energy	1 answer
Give off effort	1 answer
Give one's all with	1 answer
Give, as effort	1 answer
Labor with vigor	1 answer
Make strenuous effort	1 answer
Make, as an effort	1 answer
Nudge (oneself)	1 answer
OPERATION, bring into	1 answer
Push (oneself)	1 answer
Put effort into	1 answer
Put forth muscle power	1 answer
Put forth strongly	1 answer
Put forth vigorously	1 answer
Put forth with vigor	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.

Hint 2 anagram

NCORAE

Hint 3 another clue

COVER THE EYES

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Sentences with EXERT (5)

And I advise you to do what they tell you; for the authority you can exert by law is the only influence you will ever have over me again.” Alexandra rose.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Poor, miserable man! what right had infirmity like his to burden itself with crime? Crime is for the iron-nerved, who have their choice either to endure it, or, if it press too hard, to exert their fierce and savage strength for a good purpose, and fling it off at once! This feeble and most sensitive of spirits could do neither, yet continually did one thing or another, which intertwined, in the same inextricable knot, the agony of heaven-defying guilt and vain repentance.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

The facilities an operating system provides and its general design philosophy exert an extremely strong influence on programming style and on the technical cultures that grow up around its host machines.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

There was always the chance that he was but the essence of some hypnotic treachery which Tario or Jav was attempting to exert upon the Heliumite; and yet, so sincere had been the manner and the words of the bowman, so much the fighting man did he seem, but Carthoris could not find it in his heart to doubt him.

Thuvia, Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Philander, that you should have evinced such a paucity of manly courage in the presence of one of the lower orders, and by your crass timidity have caused me to exert myself to such an unaccustomed degree in order that I might resume my discourse.

Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with EXERT (3)

Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.""I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

Ludwig Wittgenstein khtb aby

Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting comfort. Mundus vult decipi, but there is a hierarchy of deceptions. Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism: a steady stream of irresponsible distortions that most people find refreshing although on the morning after, or at least within a week, it will be stale and flat. On a higher level we find fictions that men eagerly believe, regardless o…

Walter Kaufmann

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 409 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).