exert
/ɪgˈzɜːt/ verbDefinition
› [T] to use something such as authority, power, influence, etc in order to make something happen: My parents exerted a lot of pressure on me to do well at school.
exert yourself › to use a lot of physical or mental energy to do something: She was too ill to exert herself much.
(Definition of exert verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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