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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English exercised English unexercised From un- + exercised.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not having been subjected to physical exercise.
[…] 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: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: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 Hindu:
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(not-comparable) Not 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: