exercise
/ˈɛk.sɚ.saɪz/ verb A1- To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop. · to exercise troops or horses; to exercise one's brain with a puzzle
- To perform physical activity for health or training. · I exercise at the gym every day.
- To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice. · exercise caution· The tenant exercised his option to renew the tenancy.
- To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious. · exercised with pain· It is not a question that has exercised me greatly in the past.
He/she/it exercises · Past exercised · Past participle exercised · -ing form exercising
Verb forms
- Base form
- exercise
- He/she/it
- exercises
- Past
- exercised
- Past participle
- exercised
- -ing form
- exercising
From the library
In Meryton they parted: the two youngest repaired to the lodgings of one of the officers’ wives, and Elizabeth continued her walk alone, crossing field after field at a quick pace, jumping over stiles and springing over puddles, with impatient activity, and finding herself at last within view of the house, with weary ancles, dirty stockings, and a face glowing with the warmth of exercise.
The former was divided between admiration of the brilliancy which exercise had given to her complexion and doubt as to the occasion’s justifying her coming so far alone.
He had a cadaverous face, with the dull dead skin of a man to whom exercise was unknown.
“Dantès, you must not give way to this listlessness; you will be drowned if you seek to escape, and your strength has not been properly exercised and prepared for exertion.”
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