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[ UK /ɛkspˈi‍əɹɪəns/ ]
[ US /ɪkˈspɪɹiəns/ ]
VERB
  1. undergo or live through a difficult experience
    We had many trials to go through
    he saw action in Viet Nam
  2. 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!
  3. undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
    He felt regret
    She felt resentful
  4. go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
    experience vertigo
    get nauseous
    have a feeling
    receive injuries
    get an idea
  5. undergo
    The stocks had a fast run-up
NOUN
  1. an event as apprehended
    a surprising experience
    that painful experience certainly got our attention
  2. the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities
    a man of experience
    experience is the best teacher
  3. 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
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