Word Finder - attempt

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The action of trying at something.

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It was worth the attempt.

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An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt.

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1584 No man can charge us of any attempt against the realm. (Allen's Defence Of English Catholics, cited after Edinburgh review 1883, p. 378)

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To try.

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A group of 80 budding mountaineers attempted Kilimanjaro, but 30 of them didn't make it to the top.

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To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.

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To try to win, subdue, or overcome.

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one who attempts the virtue of a woman

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To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.

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to attempt the enemy's camp

This would be the only attempt they would make.

I smiled in an attempt to calm her down.

He accepted the food well enough, but made no attempt to feed himself.

She gave up her attempt at relaxing, and abandoned the lawn chair.

I'll attempt to relate my thoughts and feeling as accurately as possible.

He stared at the pen in his hand, making no attempt to write.

The air was heavy and fragrant, the wet, solid sand near the ocean welcome after her initial attempt to keep up in the sugary sand higher up the beach.

While Dean planned to again call the state agencies in an attempt to run down Martha, he didn't have to wait.

He widened his eyes then narrowed them in an attempt to focus.

He made no attempt to explain.

Dusty didn't say what they both knew, that Darian's attempt to save the world broke something they didn't know how to fix.

And yet, even after he knew she suspected something, he made no attempt to send her home.

Was it another attempt to humiliate them - her?

Still he made no attempt to converse.

His intent gaze found hers, but he made no attempt to write.

Deidre asked, her new instincts warning her of an attempt at deception.

He shrugged, but made no attempt to write anything down.

It is an attempt to capture the essence of the change, not the nominal value of the multiplier.

Miss Keller is distinctly not a singular proof of occult and mysterious theories, and any attempt to explain her in that way fails to reckon with her normality.

The discovery of these laws is only possible when we have quite abandoned the attempt to find the cause in the will of some one man, just as the discovery of the laws of the motion of the planets was possible only when men abandoned the conception of the fixity of the earth.

The Russian army, only half the strength of the French, does not make a single attempt to attack for a whole month.

Quinn made me listen to the details of each unsuccessful attempt before he finally, got around to the facts.

This very building was the one Gabriel dived off of in an attempt to keep the terrified human from trying to kill herself.

Many people have thought that any attempt to find the principles in her method would be nothing but a later theory superimposed on Miss Sullivan's work.

She scrubbed her skin rosy for nearly an hour and finally abandoned the attempt to remove the guilt.

Prompted by his concern for Betsy and Molly, he was willing to attempt using the apparatus.

He grinned at the attempt and grabbed her hair, yanking her head back to expose her neck.

The adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any attempt at familiarity on the part of the Russian messenger.

Pierre went up to him, though he knew his attempt would be vain.

He simply made no attempt - so unlike Alex – at least the old Alex.

He experimented in an attempt to improve on the sessions but to no avail.

I blew off his attempt to learn details of his involvement in Annie's abduction.

Anyway, first thing I did was attempt to check records in and out of Canada but getting that stuff is like pulling teeth.

My attempt at lightening the situation fell on deaf ears.

His attempt at appearing blasé didn't succeed.

She refused to back down, unwilling to let his attempt to intimidate her work.

His grip loosened, but she made no attempt to move.

Though he disclaims being a follower of Herbart, his formal definition of philosophy and his conception of the object of metaphysics are similar to those of Herbart, who defines philosophy as an attempt to remodel the notions given by experience.

The proctor was also a stranger, and did not attempt to communicate with me in any way.

Was this surrogacy actually an attempt to get an heir?

First off; we can't have you or anyone near you making any attempt to find out anything about us.

With a resigned sigh, he agreed to attempt this journey I was begging him to take.

After an hour-long attempt to expel his wired energy, he returned to his room to the sound of his cell phone ringing.

Any attempt at comfort was out of reach.

An attempt to organize a Hungarian legion during the Crimean War was stopped; but in 1859 he entered into negotiations with Napoleon, left England for Italy, and began the organization of a Hungarian legion, which was to make a descent on the coast of Dalmatia.

The attempt of five or six hundred Jacobins (7th of September) to rouse the soldiers at Grenelle met with no better success.

Two streams, the Katli and Ghaggar, attempt to flow through this dismal region, but are lost in its sands.

We laughed as we watched the puppy attempt to gnaw on the large bone.

Howie was unable to remain sleeping long enough for any success on his last attempt.

Both were as anxious as I to hear the results of Howie's attempt to visit the Vermont bike-riding peeping Tom.