Exploit and Harness

Exploit

Exploit verb - To put into action or service.
Usage example: it will be a shame if you don't exploit your artistic talent to the fullest

Harness is a synonym for exploit. In some cases you can use "Harness" instead a verb "Exploit".

Harness

Harness verb - To put into action or service.
Usage example: huge dams harness the power of water to produce electricity

Exploit is a synonym for harness in control topic. You can use "Exploit" instead a verb "Harness".

Nearby Words: harnessed, harnessing

How words are described

similar similar exploit similar harness
simple simple exploit simple harness
heavy heavy exploit heavy harness
small small exploit small harness
Other adjectives: intelligent, complicated, new.

Common collocations

love exploit love harness love
ability exploit ability harness ability
power exploit power harness power
children exploit children harness children
Other words: nature, knowledge, speed, technology, potential, hatred, properties, skills, powers, abilities.

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Command & Conquer: Tiberian Series Harmony Versus Discipline: GDI wants to harness and exploit tiberium as a resource while Nod wants to embrace it as a new way of life.
  • Film / Ender's Game The fleet command harness and exploit that feeling and manipulate him into unwittingly eradicating an entire alien race, using "the war to end all wars" as a justification.
  • Video Game / Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Someday we will be able to influence this world, to exploit the power of the human will to harness light and perhaps even travel into the heavens.
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