exploit
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6.1
- noun
- /ˈɛk.splɔɪt/
:
hazaña
- Athletes often share stories of their greatest exploits during interviews.
- heroic exploits
- military exploits
- war exploits
I hope you find that sufficient to continue your love exploits.
- I hope you find that sufficient to continue your love exploits.
- You must not be known for your generous exploits.
- Maybe he's just resting between exploits.
- He says if they had a motive for these glorious exploits, it was not a love of virtue in and for itself.
- But you can see his celebrity or his almost legendary status kind of build it from all these exploits he did.
- Are the experimental playground of your culinary exploits.
- Good luck in your your new science teaching exploits at the Open University in in the UK.
- However, the presentation of those exploits, we think as an opinion is highly unprofessional.
- Every subject plays his part as such, specifically through exploits or projects that serve as a mode of transcendence.
Examples
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Everyone is familiar with the exploits of SEAL Team Six and the capture of Osama bin Laden.
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You kept telling me my reputation was in danger... but I think this may well turn out to be my most famous exploit.
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We have been following your exploits... with great interest!
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People coming up talked about the exploits of his brothers and sisters.
Fiction book (1995) -
If he survived, it would be an exploit unmatched in history.
Fiction book (2001) -
Lists were read of those who had performed great exploits in the war.
Fiction book (1998) -
Robert's letters were full of his exploits.
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Here we entertain each other by singing of fine exploits of the past.
Fiction book (1991) -
The achievements recorded by the English colonists were male ones, consisting of military exploits and extraordinary prowess in hunting.
Academic text (1992) -
True to Lal's directive, the Leader began running flattering portraits of Fonseka's military exploits and editorials commending his political vision.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
108
3.8
An impressive act that needs skill, courage, or great strength
3
8.8
A bold and risky action that shows courage
Compounds
- Specialized
A hole in software that attackers use before developers release a fix
How Bold
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word exploit originally came from the old French esploit, which meant 'a deed' or action. That is why an exploit is a bold or notable act that shows skill or courage.