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Attempt
ATTEMPT', v.t. [L. attento, to attempt, of ad and tento, to try; tento is from the same root as tendo, to strain; Gr. Hence, the literal sense is to strain, urge, stretch.]
1. To make an effort to effect some object; to make trial or experiment; to try; to endeavor; to use exertion for any purpose; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.
2. To attack; to make an effort upon; as, to attempt the enemy's camp.
This verb is not always followed by an object, and appears to be intransitive; but some object is understood, or a verb in the infinitive follows in the place of an object; as, he attempted to speak.
ATTEMPT', n. An essay, trial or endeavor; an attack; or an effort to gain a point.
attempt appears in definitions for these words:
Abdals Abelians Abelites Abelonians Accroach Adamites Adventurer Affect Affectation Affecting Aim Alias All-daring Allure Ambition Antiochian Aruspice Assassin Assassinate Assault Assay Assaying Attack Attempt Attemptable Attempter Balance Blockade Board Bombast Bout Calenture Cheapen Chiromancer Chiromancy Chronologist Circumvallation Compounder Con Conatus Conciliate Contingency Contradiction Controvert Controverting Copy Coquetry Coquette Corpuscular Correct Counterpace Counterplot Court Courting Declaimant Defeat Detecter Detection Detractor Disaffect Discourage Discover Disorganize Disorganizer Dispute Dissuade Dissuading Dissuasion Embrace Embracer Embracery Embracing Empiric Emulating Emulation Encounter Encouragement Endeavor Endeavored Endeavorer Endeavoring Enemy Enforce Enterprise Enterprised Enterprising Entreaat Espionage Essay Essayed Essaying Evade Examination Exculpate Exemplar Expedition Experience Fail Fangle Fight Find Fish Fishing Flatter Flaunt Flee Fly Foil Fraud Fruitless Frustrate Frustration Fumble Go Gospeller Grope Hand Hawk Hazardous Here Hopeful Ice Ill Imitate Imitation Imitator Imprudence Industriously Ineffectual Innovate Insurgent Insurrection Jacobinism Jade Learn Level Leveler Make Mimic Mimick Miscarry Miscorrect Miscorrected Miss Muck Mutineer Mutiny Oak Offer Opposition Otherwise Out Pass Peirastic Peril Piracy Plead Pleader Plying Pole-ax Powder-chest Prejudice Presume Presumption Pretending Pretentative Prevail Prevent Privy Proffer Pry Raise Reach Reason Reattempt Reclaim Renew Repeat Repeated Restrain Rival Sacrilegious Second Seconder Seek Shuffle Snatch Snicker Snigger Solicit Soliciting Spring Stand Stay Storm Stupefy Succede Success Successful Successfully Sweat T Take Tempt Tenable Threaten Treason Trial Tribune Try Trying Unaffectedly Unaptness Unassayed Unattempted Undertake Undertaking Unfortunate Unseconded Untried Vain Venture Vilify Vortex Wait Waste Wisdom
Abdals Abelians Abelites Abelonians Accroach Adamites Adventurer Affect Affectation Affecting Aim Alias All-daring Allure Ambition Antiochian Aruspice Assassin Assassinate Assault Assay Assaying Attack Attempt Attemptable Attempter Balance Blockade Board Bombast Bout Calenture Cheapen Chiromancer Chiromancy Chronologist Circumvallation Compounder Con Conatus Conciliate Contingency Contradiction Controvert Controverting Copy Coquetry Coquette Corpuscular Correct Counterpace Counterplot Court Courting Declaimant Defeat Detecter Detection Detractor Disaffect Discourage Discover Disorganize Disorganizer Dispute Dissuade Dissuading Dissuasion Embrace Embracer Embracery Embracing Empiric Emulating Emulation Encounter Encouragement Endeavor Endeavored Endeavorer Endeavoring Enemy Enforce Enterprise Enterprised Enterprising Entreaat Espionage Essay Essayed Essaying Evade Examination Exculpate Exemplar Expedition Experience Fail Fangle Fight Find Fish Fishing Flatter Flaunt Flee Fly Foil Fraud Fruitless Frustrate Frustration Fumble Go Gospeller Grope Hand Hawk Hazardous Here Hopeful Ice Ill Imitate Imitation Imitator Imprudence Industriously Ineffectual Innovate Insurgent Insurrection Jacobinism Jade Learn Level Leveler Make Mimic Mimick Miscarry Miscorrect Miscorrected Miss Muck Mutineer Mutiny Oak Offer Opposition Otherwise Out Pass Peirastic Peril Piracy Plead Pleader Plying Pole-ax Powder-chest Prejudice Presume Presumption Pretending Pretentative Prevail Prevent Privy Proffer Pry Raise Reach Reason Reattempt Reclaim Renew Repeat Repeated Restrain Rival Sacrilegious Second Seconder Seek Shuffle Snatch Snicker Snigger Solicit Soliciting Spring Stand Stay Storm Stupefy Succede Success Successful Successfully Sweat T Take Tempt Tenable Threaten Treason Trial Tribune Try Trying Unaffectedly Unaptness Unassayed Unattempted Undertake Undertaking Unfortunate Unseconded Untried Vain Venture Vilify Vortex Wait Waste Wisdom
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