try (original) (raw)
try verb (ATTEMPT)
try again If I don't get into the academy this year, I'll try again next year.
try hard I've tried really hard but I can't convince him to come.
try your best/hardest I'm trying my best/hardest, but I just can't do it.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- tryI'll try to call her again.
- attemptI have never attempted to run a marathon.
- endeavourUK Engineers are endeavouring to locate the source of the problem.
- seekThey sought to reassure the public.
- battleHe was battling to fix the roof in the rain.
- striveWith limited resources, they are striving to make the school a better one.
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- She can be really irritating but I try to ignore her.
- We must try to spend less money.
- I never seem to lose any weight, no matter how hard I try.
- She lay back in the dentist's chair and tried to relax.
- The driver was peering into the distance trying to read the road sign.
try verb (TEST)
try verb (LAW)
be tried for They are being tried for murder.
try verb (WORRY)
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try noun (SPORT)
The try was good, making the score 7 to 0.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
(Definition of try from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
try | American Dictionary
try verb (ATTEMPT)
try verb (TEST)
try verb (EXAMINE IN COURT)
Idioms
Phrasal verbs
try noun [C] (ATTEMPT)
(Definition of try from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of try
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It is this affective and evaluative progress that teachers might try to develop in pupils in order to develop their skills of musical thinking further.
If the child refused, the first author tried again up to two more times.
Our point here is simply that it makes little sense to try to maintain that the explicit representations are abstract and the implicit are not.
These observations should encourage the theoretical community to reconsider their theories and try to explain why both z and u appear to play dynamical roles.
They were told that the purpose of the procedure was to observe the child trying to wait.
They tried to mimic the accent of those who taught them.
We first tried to adapt these systems to proof systems.
In light of this, it would seem appropriate to try another analytical approach that could be appropriate for strongly nonlinear systems.
He tries to turn the tables, thereby running the risk of turning philosophy into psychology.
I'm trying to make things that invite people to interact with them and which will run by themselves.
I always take a kind of 'what if ' approach, and try to do new things.
Among the 10 students, 2 would volunteer, 5 would accept, 3 would try to avoid the task, and none would refuse to undertake it.
I have tried many of them with my students - and they work!
It is tempting to try to compare this volume to an imaginary book which it doesn't try to be.
I am going to try to take some first steps toward this goal in this article.
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