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UK
/ɛkspˈiəɹɪəns/
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[ US /ɪkˈspɪɹiəns/ ]
[ US /ɪkˈspɪɹiəns/ ]
VERB
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undergo or live through a difficult experience
We had many trials to go through
he saw action in Viet Nam -
have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
I lived through two divorces
The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare
have you ever known hunger?
I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict
I know the feeling! -
undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
He felt regret
She felt resentful -
go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
experience vertigo
get nauseous
have a feeling
receive injuries
get an idea -
undergo
The stocks had a fast run-up
NOUN
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an event as apprehended
a surprising experience
that painful experience certainly got our attention -
the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities
a man of experience
experience is the best teacher -
the content of direct observation or participation in an event
he recalled the experience vividly
he had a religious experience
How To Use experience In A Sentence
- The experience was a little like being seated next to a cheerful, open-faced fellow on a long airplane flight who begins talking to you - and then never, ever, ever stops, not even when he has his Salisbury steak dinner in his mouth.
- Applicants for the job must have previous experience.
- Some hospital patients experience high levels of anxiety.
- Some experienced foreign jumpers displayed hand-in-hand group jumping, wingsuit jumping and somersaults during free fall; all the risky stunts thrilled the audience.
- AMEN: Grassroots Football is an incredible interactive roadbook from photographer Jessica Hilltout that depicts the essence of soccer as experienced throughout the African continent. Daniel Maree: Six Positively Promising World Cup Campaigns You Might Have Missed
- He is very experienced in collating documents, summarizing evidence, arranging diagrammatic and demonstrative evidence and assisting with the general preparation for trial.
- This is because people who suffer Panic Disorder, when they experience tetany for the first time, often think incorrectly that they are about to die.
- Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
- And maybe she used to be a Democrat (though my experience is that the coverted are always the most rabid). Hilary Rosen: Harriet and her Friend
- This makes is seem inevitable that the scanning device which supposedly generates higher-order experiences of our first-order visual experience would have to be almost as sophisticated and complex as the visual system itself.