exercised

From exercise + -ed.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛk.sɚ.saɪzd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛk.sə.saɪzd/

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• Hyphenation: ex‧er‧cised

exercised

1. simple past and past participle of exercise

exercised (comparative more exercised, superlative most exercised)

1. The property of having been exercised, used, acted upon.
2. Experienced, practiced, trained.
   • 1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, “‘We Frolic while ’Tis May’”, in A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC, page 20:

     Three points about this unobtrusive person showed promptly to the exercised eye that he was not a Row man pur sang.