Meanings
unexercised1
- not comparableNot having been subjected to physical exercise.
Unexercised joints get stiffer, but the wrong sort of exercise can strain the joints, damaging them further.
2012 December 16, Geeta Padmanabhan, “Movement, the best medicine”, in The Hindu2 more examples
Says Colonel Thomas Murray, chief Army psychiatrist in South Viet Nam: “Some of our psychiatrists are the most improbable military guys: soft, flabby, unexercised.”
1969 October 10, “Dividend from Viet Nam”, in Time[…] Lou was a respectful reader of the boy books that were emerging then, those magazines of black-and-white photos of teenagers with shaved chests, sucked-in if unexercised stomachs, and cloth posing-straps who stood on a dais silhouetted against a sunburst of seamless paper.
1988, Edmund White, chapter 5, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994 - not comparablebusinessNot having been exercised
Shelby W. Bonnie, the former chief executive, agreed to reprice 700,000 unexercised shares, the company said yesterday in a statement.
2007 January 30, Bloomberg News, “CNet Restatement Goes Back to 1996”, in New York Times
unexercised2
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of unexercise
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishexercised
- Englishunexercised
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