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UK
/ɛkspˈiəɹɪəns/
]
[ 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
- It lies less than 100 miles from Melbourne and is well set up for visitors to enjoy myriad up close experiences with the local fauna. Times, Sunday Times
- 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.
- With more than a decade of contactless payment experience, the company has delivered tens of millions of chips to the market.
- The digital flux that frames our experience of physical and socio-political realities functions through continuous additions, subtractions, and disappearances.
- The Lord ministered to her, offering unconditional love and acceptance and washing her clean from the grime of her experience. Growing Through Loss and Grief
- The work of the Hard-Edge painters, their first collective exhibition catalog in 1959 asserted, runs counter to a widespread contemporary belief in the primary value of emotion and intuition in esthetic experience … the [Hard-Edge painter] is not preoccupied with art as an opportunity to make autobiographical statements. California Cool
- Second, his academic experience at the University of Chicago makes him singularly suited to translate the arcana of policy into an accessible format.
- Vocab from The Varieties of Religious Experience aseity the property by which a being exists of and from itself; usually used in connection to God apodictic Necessarily or demonstrably true; incontrovertible.concatenated To connect or link in a series or chain.decide Of course, I already knew the definition; it's hardly an unusual word. Archive 2005-08-01
- Rarely, a person with iron-deficiency anemia may experience pica, a craving to eat nonfood items such as paint chips, chalk, or dirt.
- Seeing these majestic and beautiful creatures in their natural habitat was one of the most moving and incredible experiences of my life. The Sun