transitive. To experience (a physical or emotional sensation); to feel.

transitive. To have experience of; to test, to try, make trial of.

transitive. figurative. To have experience of, to taste (death, affliction, etc.); esp. to sup sorrow. Now rare.

intransitive. To have sensation, to be capable of sensory perception. Cf. feel, v. 1b.

transitive. To put to the test; to prove, try out; to test by experiment or experience. Also: to experience, undergo.

transitive. To experience (an emotion, trouble, etc.), to know from experience. Also: to manifest or exhibit (an attitude, disposition, etc.) Obsolete…

transitive. To have or gain knowledge of (a situation, event, development, etc.) by means of sight or other senses; to witness; to meet with (a…

transitive. To have personal experience of (something) as affecting oneself; to have experienced, met with, felt, or undergone. Also figurative…

transitive. To put (a person or thing) to the test; to test or assess the genuineness or qualities of; (Scottish) to test by tasting, to sample. Now…

transitive. With simple object and infinitive or complement. To have an impression or conviction that (a person or thing) has the specified quality…

transitive. figurative. To go or come through (something) in the course of a period of study or treatment; to undergo, suffer, endure (an…

To learn or know by trial; to experience.

transitive. To experience (a feeling, emotion, or state). Chiefly in negative sense: to suffer, undergo (something unpleasant or harmful); to…

To experience: = know, v. 9. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To have experience of; to experience; to feel, suffer. Obsolete.

To find by experience, to experience. Obsolete.

To learn (a fact) by experience; to find. With direct object and infinitive, or with sentence as object. Now rare.

transitive. To feel (an event, a situation, etc.) deeply or sharply; to feel (something) as a cause of depression or sorrow. Obsolete.

To have experience of, deal with (a person); to have (carnal) acquaintance with.