Exserted vs Exerted - What's the difference?

exserted | exerted |


As verbs the difference between exserted and exerted

is that exserted is past tense of exsert while exerted is past tense of exert.

As an adjective exserted

is protruding, projecting.

exserted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (exsert)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (botany) protruding, projecting

    • exerted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (exert)

    • exert

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put in vigorous action.
  • To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=18 April, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona , passage=Di Matteo clearly saw Drogba's power as a potential threat to a Barcelona defence stripped of Gerard Pique - but he barely caught sight of goal in a first 45 minutes in which the Catalans exerted their technical superiority.}}