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
Harness verb - To put into action or service.
Usage example: huge dams harness the power of water to produce electricity
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
Both words in one sentence
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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.
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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.
Source: Film / Ender's Game -
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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