exhort
verb /ɪɡˈzɔːt/
/ɪɡˈzɔːrt/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they exhort | /ɪɡˈzɔːt/ /ɪɡˈzɔːrt/ |
| he / she / it exhorts | /ɪɡˈzɔːts/ /ɪɡˈzɔːrts/ |
| past simple exhorted | /ɪɡˈzɔːtɪd/ /ɪɡˈzɔːrtɪd/ |
| past participle exhorted | /ɪɡˈzɔːtɪd/ /ɪɡˈzɔːrtɪd/ |
| -ing form exhorting | /ɪɡˈzɔːtɪŋ/ /ɪɡˈzɔːrtɪŋ/ |
- to try hard to persuade somebody to do something synonym urge
- exhort somebody to do something The party leader exhorted his members to start preparing for government.
- exhort somebody to something They had been exhorted to action.
- exhort (somebody) + speech ‘Come on!’ he exhorted (them).
- ‘Keep pushing!’ he exhorted them.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French exhorter or Latin exhortari, from ex- ‘thoroughly’ + hortari ‘encourage’.