exploit

Meaning

Noun

1. A heroic or extraordinary deed.
2. An achievement.
3. A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.
4. An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.

Verb

1. To use (something) to someone's advantage, such as one's own benefit or a society's benefit.
2. To make unfair use of someone else's labor, person, or property to one's own advantage.

Synonyms

feat

deed

take advantage of

use

achievement

utilize

work

accomplishment

act

action

effort

performance

develop

tap

milk

🥛

mine

fleece

employ

escapade

take advantage

be tricky

oppress

overwork

heroic deed

take

cultivation

extract

venture

victimize

doing

exploitation

get

go by

graze

gull

habituate

harass

harvest

inject

keep down

leverage

maintain

merit

merits

molest

obtain

opening

open up

operate

pick

⛏️

plunder

ply

predate

prey

profit

pull out

reclamation

remove

repress

rook

rule

sacrifice

skin

spend

squeeze

step on

strip

stunt

substract

suppress

swindle

take away

take out

tread down

trick

triumph

😤

turn on

violate

wield

become blurred

brilliant feat

cash in on

great deed

profit by

pull strings

put to use

alcoholise

abuse

development

make the most

difficult task

presume upon

derring-doery

activity

address

adventure

alcoholize

apply

attainment

avail

bamboozle

bilk

bleed

🩸

capitalise

cheat

conduct

deceive

decrease

defraud

deploy

deplume

deprive

disinvest

divest

dock

drive

enjoy

exercise

exert

exploiting

extort

feed

ferment

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛksplɔɪt/

Etymology

From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).