Synonym: employ, put forth, use, utilize. Antonym: neglect. Similar words: exertion, exercise, execute, execution, executive, exempt from, chief executive, executive branch. Meaning: [ɪg'zɜːt] 
v. 1. put to use 2. have and exercise 3. make a great effort at a mental or physical task.
v. 1. put to use 2. have and exercise 3. make a great effort at a mental or physical task. 
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181. These drugs exert their effect by inhibiting the activity of acetylcholinesterase, the enzyme that hydrolyzes acetylcholine in the neuromuscular junction.
182. To exert an animating, enlivening, encouraging or exalting influence on someone.
183. The recent researches indicate PPARs exert great influence on controlling adipose cell differentiation.
184. Pulmonary vascular is an effector of baroreceptor reflex, which can exert significant control of pulmonary resistance and capacitance after orthostatic challenge.
185. The teacher, when teaching, must be himself fully enkindled , so that his utterance, like unto a flame of fire, may exert influence and consume the veil of self and passion.
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