Answer to "Exert" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word STRAIN , but the solution may also be USE which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in USA Today).

Exert crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
STRAIN	29 %	6
BRINGTOBEAR	29 %	11
WIELD	14 %	5
USE	14 %	3
APPLY	14 %	5

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Exert

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• maintain
• wield
• exercise
• strive
• engage
• enforce
• pursue
• hold
• take
• expend
• impose
• play

Crossword Answer definitions

STRAIN noun

1. Treasure.
2. The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
3. Race; lineage, pedigree.
4. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
5. A tendency or disposition.
6. Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style
7. A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
8. A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
9. A kind or sort (of person etc.).
10. Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.

STRAIN noun

1. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
2. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
3. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
4. A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
5. The track of a deer.

STRAIN verb

1. To hold tightly, to clasp.
2. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
3. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
4. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
5. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
6. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
7. To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
8. To percolate; to be filtered.
9. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
10. To urge with importunity; to press.
11. Hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.

STRAIN verb

1. To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result STRAIN

• Go beyond the limit
• Air, or pressure
• Overexert
• Exertion
• Considerable effort
• Muscle problem
• Use a sieve
• Variety
• Back problem
• Sports injury

More clues leading to the result BRINGTOBEAR

• Exert
• Focus on
• Cause to apply.
• Use pressure
• Use
• Concentrate on

More clues leading to the result WIELD

• Exercise authority
• Handle skillfully
• Swing, as a sword
• Throw around, as a sword
• Use, as power
• Brandish
• Handle with skill
• Exert, as power
• Bring to bear
• Brandish, as a sword

More clues leading to the result USE

• "It's no __!"
• Avail oneself of
• Consume
• Custom
• Employ
• Exercise
• Function
• IN __ (lavatory sign)
• Make the most of
• Purpose

More clues leading to the result APPLY

• Go for a job
• Put on, as glue
• Put to use
• Be relevant
• Use
• Answer a job ad
• Put on
• Try for a job
• Present a resumé
• Put on, as makeup