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experior — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • experience noun Knowledge or skill gained by doing something over time.
  • find out phrasal verb To learn something you did not previously know, either by asking, checking or discovering it by chance.
  • know verb To have information about something, or to be certain that something is true.
  • test noun A set of questions or tasks used to check someone's knowledge or ability.
  • try verb To make an attempt at doing something.
  • witness noun A person who sees an event happen and can describe it afterward.

Senses

experior is used for these senses in English:

  • experience (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.
  • find out (transitive) To discover or expose (someone) as disobedient, dishonest, etc.
  • know (transitive) To experience.
  • put to the test (transitive, idiomatic) To test (something or someone); to evaluate, scrutinize or explore by testing or experimentation.
  • test To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
  • try To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
  • try To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
  • witness (transitive) To see or gain knowledge of through experience.

experience — full definition

  1. noun Knowledge or skill gained by doing something over time.
  2. noun Something that happens to you, especially something memorable.
  3. verb To go through or undergo something personally.

find out — full definition

  1. phrasal verb To learn something you did not previously know, either by asking, checking or discovering it by chance.
  2. phrasal verb To detect someone in a lie, crime or deception, so that their behaviour becomes known.

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