Word Finder - exploit

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A heroic or extraordinary deed.

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An achievement.

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The first trek to the summit of Mount Everest was a stunning exploit.

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A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.

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To use for one’s own advantage.

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• take advantage of
• use

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To forcibly deprive someone of something to which she or he has a natural right.

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Materialistic monsters who exploit "kind" folks will not have good outcomes, no matter how much comforts were ill-gained.

An exploit unique in history had been achieved.

This brilliant exploit earned him his captain's commission and a sword of honour from Congress.

There is not time to fully exploit the opportunities to improve which are often found on the way.

The person in charge does not exploit vulnerability or ignorance or abuse trust.

It's a weakness I exploit.

Climb these monstrous beasts and exploit their weaknesses.

You must find a way to exploit their weaknesses and attempt to destroy them in anyway you can.

The custom of giving a bride without demanding bride-price, in reward for a great exploit, is several times alluded to in the Iliad.

At the beginning of March 1849 he annihilated a brigade at Szolnok, perhaps his greatest exploit.

Have you heard of Raevski's exploit?

There are now several examples of spin-off companies that exploit nanotechnology.

So if there's an exploit out there we're going to go ahead and release a security advisory.

Should a different mineral from that specified in the imperial firman for a mining concession be discovered in a free state, a fresh firman is necessary to exploit it.

Amenable environments for the creation and presentation of electronic papers have emerged; however, more disciplines began to exploit them.

View Michael Moore films as well as independent documentaries that exploit some of the biggest problems in the world.

You'll find vegan footwear to suit almost any occasion at Earth, and the company take great pride in their commitment to using materials which do not exploit animals.

In fact, hackers have already published the source code they used to exploit the WMF Flaw, opening the door to thousands of other hackers.

Hence, labels often exploit the function of a particular substance.

Sometimes the information gathered by the script lets the programmer behind-the-scenes know how they can exploit weaknesses in your browser to install of viruses, malware, or spam-generating programs.

Hackers could exploit many javascripts, especially in conjunction with insecure browsers such as early versions of Internet Explorer.

Yugoslavia's economic recovery had been surprisingly rapid, and the chief problems which confronted her in the autumn of 1921 were how best to exploit her vast undeveloped mineral and agricultural resources, improve her very faulty communications, and root out the illiteracy which was a legacy of alien rule.

Preparation was begun in earnest after the accession of King William I., who selected Bismarck as his chancellor, Moltke as his chief of staff and Roon as his minister of war, and gave them a free hand to create the political situation and prepare the military machinery necessary to exploit it.

Tin is also mined in Katanga, but up to 1921 little had been done to exploit its iron and gold deposits and diamondiferous areas.

William Cookworthy (1705-1780), a porcelain manufacturer, the first to exploit the deposits of kaolin in the south-west of England, was also born at Kingsbridge.

Improving his advantage, Bolivar pressed forward, and on the 6th of August defeated Canterac on the plains of Junin, after which he returned to Lima, leaving Sucre to follow the royalists in their retreat to Upper Peru - an exploit which the latter executed with equal ability and success, gaining a decisive victory at Ayacucho, and thus completing the dispersion of the Spanish force.

Occasionally she even joined in the king's sports, though here her only recorded exploit was her accidental shooting of James's "most principal and special hound," Jewel.

From 1882 onwards a Batjan company attempted to exploit the island, but unsuccessfully, owing to a deficient knowledge of the soil and its capabilities and a lack of labourers.

At sea, as on land, the Greeks opened the campaign with hideous atrocities, almost their first exploit being the capture of a vessel carrying to Mecca the sheik-ul-Islam and his family, whom they murdered with every aggravation of outrage.

All Europe, then, hailed with joy the exploit of Constantine Kanaris, who on the night of June 18-19 succeeded in steering a fire-ship among the Turkish squadron off Scio, and burned the flag-ship of the capudan-pasha with 3000 souls on board.

Absalon's last military exploit was the annihilation, off Strela (Stralsund), on Whit-Sunday 1184, of a Pomeranian fleet which had attacked Denmark's vassal, Jaromir of Rugen.

The history of Africa Minor is the history of all those foreigners who have successively endeavoured to exploit this land, the history of their divers civilizations struggling against an everrenascent barbarism.

This brilliant exploit was followed by another on the 3rd of January, when Washington, again crossing the Delaware, outmarched Cornwallis at Trenton, and marching to his rear defeated three British regiments and three companies of light cavalry at Princeton, New Jersey.

This was his last exploit, for he died the same year, to the great grief of Wladislaus IV., who had already concerted with him the plan for a campaign on a grand scale against the Turks, and relied principally upon the Grand Hetman for its success.

He proved himself utterly incapable; his chief exploit was the burning of thirty transports on their return from Epirus whither they had succeeded in conveying Caesar and some troops from Brundusium.

Andrew's last exploit was to defeat an invasion of Frederick of Austria in 1234.

The British armed mission of 1904 performed a brilliant feat of marching and reached Lhasa, whose mysteries were thus unveiled, but this exploit belongs to the section dealing with history, below.

This -anti-Prussian feeling Austria now tried to exploit for her own advantage.

They represented that Austria was being governed by a close ring of political financiers, many of whom were Jews or in the pay of the Jews, who used the forms of the constitution, under which there was no representation of the working classes, to exploit the labour of the poor at the same time that they ruined the people by alienating them from Christianity in " godless schools."

In 1906, when the concession to the Anglo-Sicilian Sulphur Company was about to expire, the government decreed that it should be formed into an obligatory syndicate for a term of twelve years for the control of all sulphur produced in Sicily, and exempted from taxation and legal dues, foreign companies established in Italy to exploit industries in which sulphur is a principal element.

The levying of these tolls gave rise to various disputes between the men of Uri and the bailiffs of the dukes of Austria, and by 1319 (if not already in 1309) the claim to levy them was silently given up. These facts show (what could not hitherto be proved) that at the time when legend places the rising of Uri, Tell exploit, &c., the dukes of Austria really had disputes with Uri.

The khan of Khiva laid a plan for detaining him as a hostage, but he eluded the danger and returned safely, after concluding with the khan of Bokhara a treaty of friendship. His next diplomatic exploit was in the Far East, as plenipotentiary to the court of Peking.

The change in Spain's economic policy, including an attempt to exploit the coalfields and to encourage both agriculture and commerce, helped to awaken hitherto dormant elements.

His swimming exploit among the Hetware, allowance being made for poetic exaggeration, fits remarkably well into the circumstances of the story told by Gregory of Tours; and perhaps his contest with Breca may have been an exaggeration of a real incident in his career; and even if it was originally related of some other hero, its attribution to the historical Beowulf may have been occasioned by his renown as a swimmer.

In Germany, in particular, it has grown into a political party connected with the Social Democrats; nor have the democratic socialists been slow to exploit their Christian allies for their own ends.

His first exploit in arms was at the battle of Agincourt in 1415; he followed the party of the Armagnacs and attached himself to the dauphin Charles.

Another development is ancestor-worship, the organized cult of ancestors marking, however, a certain stage of advance beyond the very primitive, though the dead are always sacred and have mana which the living may exploit for their own advantage.

His greatest exploit was the brilliant surprise of Paulus Hook, N.J., on the 19th of August 1779; for this feat he received a gold medal, a reward given to no other officer below general's rank in the whole war.

Find the right mix of sources and build your sales engine to exploit the massive potential of the roofline market.

How much are songwriting royalties worth for this little exploit?

This gave them a greater attacking threat, but was leaving gaps in their rearguard for South to exploit in swift counter-attacks.