exercise
noun
bodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health.
exercised
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past participleof exercise.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof exercise.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
exercisenounbodily or mental exertion, especially for the sake of training or improvement of health.
Example Sentences
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Participants who exercised more regularly also tended to feel more energetic and experience less stress the next day.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Doctors also say that certain patients, usually older adults, postmenopausal women or people who have never exercised, are suddenly dealing with back or bone issues after experiencing rapid weight loss.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
On each of those occasions, the governor’s office exercised its authority to prevent her release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
The petition argues that Kumar exercised powers that belong to the commission collectively and seeks a ruling that any such actions were unauthorised.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Therefore, every time that Úrsula became exercised over her husband's mad ideas, she would leap back over three hundred years of fate and curse the day that Sir Francis Drake had attacked Riohacha.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
