adjective
definition
Tested, hence, proven to be firm or reliable.
definition
Put on trial, taken before a lawcourt.
verb
definition
To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
example
I tried to rollerblade, but I couldn’t.
definition
To divide; to separate.
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To test, to work out.
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To experiment, to strive.
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To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
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To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
example
Repeated failures try one's patience.
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(used with another verb) To want
example
I am really not trying to hear you talk about my mama like that.
Examples of tried in a Sentence
He said you tried to call him.
Alex tried to pay, but she wouldn't let him.
I tried to call you on your cell phone, but I didn't get an answer.
You tried to dance and fell upon the floor.
I have tried many machines, and I find the Hammond is the best adapted to the peculiar needs of my work.
He even tried to get custody of Alex.
She tried again with the same results.
Early cars tried to be faster and faster, to break the 60 mph barrier.
I have tried it again and again.
She tried to work the muscles in her lower back with her fingertips, but the effort was worse than the benefit.
It tried three times, four times, a dozen times, twenty times--but always with the same result.
She tried to sound convincing, but her voice faltered.
From that vantage point, if you had tried to look fifty years ahead to what the world would be like in the year 2500 BC, you would have expected very little change.
She tried to identify a sound.
Adrienne shucked her coat and tried to act nonchalant in spite of the warmth in her cheeks.
She cradled her throbbing head on her arms and tried to relax.
For the next week, she tried to stay too busy to think about him.
Then, with the Wizard's help, he tried to fasten some of the wings to the old cab-horse.
Carry this cat away to prison, and keep her in safe confinement until she is tried by law for the crime of murder.
She tried to scream, but no sound came out.
But I tried very hard to be patient for teacher's sake.
Hadn't he tried to remain aloof?
Rook tried to rise on his forelegs but fell back, pinning his rider's leg.
She could not understand them, but tried to guess what he was saying and inquiringly repeated the words he uttered.
She tried to smile cheerfully as she looked at him over one shoulder.
She stretched and tried to relax, but her mind kept returning to Cade - thinking of his warm touch on the palm of her hand.
A second time it tried to carry its load up the rough trunk of the tree, and a second time it failed.
Then it tried the twenty-first time.
All the things they tried and failed, or achieved, we have to redo.
Avoiding his eyes as she walked past him, she tried not to limp.
When he hung this painting outside of his door, some birds flew down and tried to carry the cherries away.
At first his mother tried to answer all his questions.
She tried to stand and winced again.
She tried to slip by quietly, but he glanced up as she passed.
Adrienne tried to pull away from Brandon, but he hung on to her defiantly.
Cynthia leaned over as they drew near one and tried to pet it, but the cow moved away a few steps and began grazing again.
She pounded his chest with her fists and tried to scream.
You tried to feed on her?
Tears were in his eyes; but he tried to look brave.
I tried hard to teach her my sign language, but she was dull and inattentive.
I tried vainly to put them together.
I tried to imagine my gentle poet when he was a school-boy, and I wondered if it was in Andover he learned the songs of the birds and the secrets of the shy little woodland children.
Carmen tried to hide her surprise.
She tried to step around him, but he stopped her with an iron grip on her arm.
I tried to warn Yancey before they were married, but he wouldn't listen.
Strange he would want to defend Howard after he had tried to dig up information on him.
She tried to swallow the lump that insisted on staying in her throat.
They could hardly say she hadn't tried.
She tried to feign innocence but her eyes were probably full of mischief instead.
Wiping her hands on her pants, she gripped her rifle and tried to stay awake.