exert oneself



exert oneself

Put oneself to strenuous effort, as in We exerted ourselves mightily to raise funds. [First half of 1700s]

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Hroderich-Ancient Germanic
Patriziopah-TREE-tsyoItalian
DuŠAna-Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Slovak
Orrell-English (Rare)
EiŽEns-Latvian
Nina (1)NEE-nah (Russian, Italian, German, Finnish, Polish), NEE-nə (English)Russian, Italian, English, German, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Polish, Slove