exact
/ɪɡˈzækt/ verb C2- To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way. · to exact tribute, fees, or obedience from someone
- To make desirable or necessary.
- To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce; to visit. · to exact revenge on someone
He/she/it exacts · Past exacted · Past participle exacted · -ing form exacting
Verb forms
- Base form
- exact
- He/she/it
- exacts
- Past
- exacted
- Past participle
- exacted
- -ing form
- exacting
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For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.
One day last week—on Thursday night, to be more exact—I found that I could not sleep, having foolishly taken a cup of strong café noir after my dinner.
And if it isn’t carried in just a certain way the handle pulls out--so I’d better keep it because I know the exact knack of it.
First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (“the exact shape doesn’t matter,” it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there.
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