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Exertion

🔄 Synonyms of "Exertion"

4 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
travailnoun	(literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
effortnoun	The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
sweatnoun	Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
elbow greasenoun	(idiomatic) Effort or hard work, especially physical work involving repeated motion of the forearm, such as scrubbing.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Exertion"

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Word	Definition
effortnoun	The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
elbow greasenoun	(idiomatic) Effort or hard work, especially physical work involving repeated motion of the forearm, such as scrubbing.
travailnoun	(literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
sweatnoun	Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
nisusnoun	A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.
toilnoun	Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
consumingnoun	consumption; the process by which something is consumed
wastagenoun	(uncountable) The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration or other natural process.
depletionnoun	The consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished.
exhaustionnoun	Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.
attritionnoun	A gradual reduction in number.
consumablenoun	A material or product that is produced for consumption.
consumptionnoun	The act of eating, drinking or using.
exercisenoun	(countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
wearnoun	(in combination) Clothing.
drainnoun	(chiefly US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
erosionnoun	(uncountable) The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
ozonenoun	(inorganic chemistry) An allotrope of oxygen (symbol O₃) having three atoms in the molecule instead of the usual two; it is a toxic gas, generated from oxygen by electrical discharge.
labornoun	(Australian politics, informal) The Australian Labor Party.
worknoun	(uncountable) Employment.