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Definition of Attempt

Attempt To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight. To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt. To try to win, subdue, or overcome; as, one who attempts the virtue of a woman. To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force; as, to attempt the enemy's camp. To make an attempt; -- with upon. A essay, trial, or endeavor; an undertaking; an attack, or an effort to gain a point; esp. an unsuccessful, as contrasted with a successful, effort. Related Definitions: Action, An, As, Assay, Attack, Attempt, Bold, By, Camp, Contrasted, Do, Effort, Endeavor, Enemy, Entreaty, Essay, Experiment, Flight, Force, Gain, Make, Move, Of, One, Or, Overcome, Perform, Point, Sing, Some, Subdue, Successful, Take, Tempt, The, To, Trial, Try, Undertaking, Unsuccessful, Upon, Virtue, Who, Win, With, Woman

Attempt Quotations Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Umberto Eco Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. Marcus Tullius Cicero Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it. Ovid Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. Mohandas Gandhi

Attempt Translations attempt in Afrikaans is aanpak, probeer, poging attempt in Dutch is streven, trachten, pogen, moeite doen attempt in Finnish is koettaa, ponnistella attempt in German is Versuch, versuchen attempt in Italian is esperimentare, esperimento, attentato, operazione attempt in Latin is inceptum, conor, rudimentum, tendo

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