Exertion

//ɪɡˈzɝʃən// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An expenditure of physical or mental effort. countable, uncountable

    "Again she felt a return of that utter despondency which had fallen upon her after Guido's death: but then she could indulge in it unmolested, and that was something of relief: now she was forced into exertion, that sort of exertion of all the most tiresome, because the least interesting..."

  2. 2
    use of physical or mental energy; hard work wordnet

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effortactionactive useactivityadoappliance

Example

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"The tremendous exertions which I have gone through during the last day or two have worn me out. Not so much bodily exertion, you understand, as the strain upon the mind. You will appreciate that, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, for we are both brain-workers."

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