单词 | re-exert |
释义 | re-exertv. transitive. To exert (something, esp. some force or influence) again. ΚΠ 1748 S. Bourn Vindic. Princ. & Prac. Protestant Dissenters iii. 88 If..People were prevailed on to give up these Rights, which should be unalienable, ought they not to agree now in reclaiming and re-exerting them? 1782 J. Smeaton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 346 The operation of half the mechanic power is..only locked up and suspended, and capable of being re-exerted. 1890 Evening Jrnl. (Waukesha, Wisconsin) 26 May 1/5 My pulse seemed to stir, my heart beat, my will to re-exert itself, and in a few minutes I was myself. 1975 Economist (Nexis) 22 Nov. 78 Oil producers..look to the conference for a chance to re-exert leadership over the third world. 2006 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 1 May (Features section) 15 Many families have been only too happy that tagging..has spared their son or daughter jail, and have used the opportunity to re-exert control over them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1748 |
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