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attempt English

Meaning attempt meaning

What does attempt mean?
Definitions in simple English

attempt

An attempt is a try at something, usually something difficult It's broken and no attempt has been made to fix it.

attempt

To try or to make an effort at. If you get something in your eye, do not attempt to remove it yourself.

attempt

(= try, seek, essay) make an effort or attempt He tried to shake off his fears The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps The police attempted to stop the thief He sought to improve himself She always seeks to do good in the world (= effort, endeavor, endeavour, try) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something made an effort to cover all the reading material wished him luck in his endeavor she gave it a good try (= undertake) enter upon an activity or enterprise (= attack) the act of attacking attacks on women increased last year they made an attempt on his life

Synonyms attempt synonyms

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Topics attempt topics

What do people use attempt to talk about?
  • What words are used to indicate that someone is attempting to do something?
  • attempt: the agent attempts to complete the action specified by the predicate. Note: this has a sense of incompleteness, and I have seen authors call this "Incomplete" and gloss the examples with 'try'.

Conjugation attempt conjugation

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attempt · verb

Examples attempt examples

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Simple sentences

The attempt to resuscitate Tom failed.
Our attempt has proved to be a failure.
Don't attempt two things at a time.
This attempt resulted in failure.
This attempt has been less than a complete success.
The coup attempt was foiled at the last moment.
Without your advice, I would have failed in the attempt.
I succeeded in my first attempt.
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
He is sure to succeed in the attempt.
He failed in his attempt to swim across the river.
His attempt ended in failure.
His attempt proved to be a failure.
He was successful in the attempt.
The attempt ended in failure.
I was foiled in my attempt.
We marveled at his bold attempt.
His attempt to escape was successful.
He succeeded in the examination at his first attempt.
He is too much of a coward to attempt it.
He failed in the attempt to sail across the Pacific Ocean.
She made an attempt to ride a bicycle.
Despair drove him to attempt suicide.
It is more time-efficient to do several tasks sequentially than attempt to do them simultaneously.

Movie subtitles

Everytime she makes an attempt I lose so much of my energy.
I was told today that the Family Contraceptive Clinics were launching district clinics in an attempt to cut down waiting lists.
Maybe the perpetrator will make another attempt today.
Any jealous attempt on your part to interefere with the performance will prove disastrous to your career.
No, sir. Any attempt to obstruct this will be punished.
Dear Maria, I go with Dr. Johannes to attempt the north face because it leaves me no peace I want to prove that I can achieve something, too Don't be angry, we'll be back this evening and hopefully we'll stay alone after that.
You know, in case of an attempt on his life.
Ropa is in London and an attempt may be made on his life.
An attempt was made to assassinate the European diplomat,...Monsieur Ropa.
How long did you attempt to round the Horn?
A charge you will see vanish into thin air here as the state, to cover up its own criminal negligence in not protecting this innocent man, proceeds in this savage attempt to kill as scapegoats these 22 bewildered souls.
This time, there's no attempt to land on the moon.
I've told you of his attempt to bribe Mr. Tyler.
His attempt to resist the normal, healthy discipline of being put into Coventry. brought no further discipline from us.
It would appear his intention is to use the flying debris field in an attempt to destroy my terminal.
Two-time murderer caught in third attempt!
A long time I didn't attempt anything.
She's tried to appear mysterious in an attempt to create doubt in your minds.
And you knew it, and you shot him in an attempt to save yourself.
Until Universal's The Invisible Man Returns in 1940, there was no attempt to deal with such spectacular invisibility effects in films.
Mr. Lawrence, Ropa is in London, and an attempt may be made on his life.
An attempt has been made to assassinate the distinguished European diplomat. Monsieur Ropa, who is attending the concert.
Because I have the sense to sleep tonight instead of rushing to my ruin. in an attempt to put this Duke of Monmouth on the throne?
Take him to work on the docks. and don't you attempt to escape till every farthing's paid. or I'll stretch your hide on the rack!
This note is a poor attempt at illiteracy.
His last remark proves the district attorney hasn't lost his humor, in spite of the fact that his attempt to establish the presence of the defendants at the lynching has either failed or been ridiculed by the defense.
I want you to understand that any attempt at familiarity is very much resented.
Did you attempt to kill Korean King the 3rd Lee Jae Gang and Queen Bak Hyeon Ju?
Madame Colet, if I were your father. which, fortunately, I am not. and you made any attempt to handle your own business affairs, I would give you a good spanking, in a business way, of course.
Monsieur La Tour La Tour. I choose to think that idiotic reply was not a weak attempt at humor. But a definite lack of intelligence.
If this is another attempt to scare me into selling the island.
It's an attempt to ruin us.
Before retiring in an attempt to reach your verdict.. I wish to remind you that your duty is to consider only matters of facts.
I'm contemptuous of something you can't help or make no attempt to. Your so-called strength. Your prejudice against weakness, your blank intolerance.
I warn you, if you attempt to prevent me, I shall certainly shoot you.
You and your stupid attempt to buy it!
We'll make no further attempt to take the well, if we get water.
I'd make no further attempt to find Jacqueline.

News and current affairs

And, over time, Israeli settler disengagement from the West Bank and East Jerusalem has become just as impossible as any attempt by Israel to expel its remaining Arabs.
But any attempt to prolong Kuchma's rule will create such a political mess that it is not absurd to fear that Ukraine could follow Belarus and the Balkans of the early 1990's into outright dictatorship and chaos.
The attempt to restrain the growth of debt does serve to concentrate the mind - it forces countries to focus on priorities and assess values.
Look at Putin's attempt to rig Ukraine's previous presidential election, and the on again off again criminal charges brought against the opposition leader Yuliya Tymoshenko.
Of course, the Alliance of Civilizations should not attempt to bridge differences by defending moral relativism.
Djindjic himself narrowly escaped a highway assassination attempt only last month.
It was an attempt to preserve the peace (and the security of the relatively weak Austrian Empire) through a coalition of victors upholding shared values.
The FIS meeting in July was the unheralded beginning of an attempt to remodel the universe in such a way.
As we have seen, the White House built its case for war on a highly selective dossier of evidence, and Bush made statements about Iraq's attempt to purchase uranium from Africa that he and his staff knew to be highly doubtful, if not false.
They should attempt to produce an immediate cessation of violence from both sides while simultaneously focusing on a permanent settlement of our conflict.
The EU countries have failed twice in their attempt to respond to this challenge - once by half-hearted sanctions; now by lifting them.
Those denouncing the attempt to put Bashir on trial include the large blocs of countries that are members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the African Union, together with such powerful states as China and Russia.
It may be, as President Mubarak's critics argue, that the faltering progress of democratization reflects the attempt to block all potential challengers to Gamal.
But the partnership between a beloved American pastime and the biofuel lobby also marks the latest attempt to sway public opinion in favor of a truly irresponsible policy.
That leaves only about one-third of total federal spending from which to cut, and much of that goes to the defense budget, which Republicans will attempt to protect in the future.
The current attempt by Republicans in the US Congress to roll back America's effort to ban incandescent bulbs has revived this discussion.
With the backing of the US, Canada, and the European Union, Israel has maintained its blockade in an attempt to defeat Hamas, which won the elections here in 2006.
Pressures are mounting on the ECB to raise interest rates - and Berlusconi and Co.'s attacks are as much as an attempt to forestall future rate hikes as to get the ECB to loosen its monetary policy.
Presidential assassinations do not necessarily lead to civil wars, but in Burundi, a large-scale massacre of Tutsi civilians by Hutu immediately followed the coup attempt.
The war in Iraq was misconceived from the start, because it was an attempt to avenge the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by invading and occupying a country that had no part in them.
For all of the Obama administration's lofty rhetoric, his fiscal-policy proposals make no serious attempt to address these problems.
The new Commission will attempt to change this by focusing on rule implementation and oversight, rather than creation.
Even the Copenhagen summit on climate change ended just the way China wanted: failure in its attempt to commit China, or any other industrial nation, to making significant cuts in carbon emissions, with the United States getting the blame.
Contrary to most commentary, this is not a growth strategy, but rather an attempt to limit the considerable risk of another major downturn, induced by further balance-sheet damage in the housing sector.
There are school and university league tables, rankings of companies on profitability or corporate social responsibility, tables of happiness indicators by country, and tables that attempt to rank consumer brands by value.
It was French President Nicolas Sarkozy who, in the run-up to the last EU summit, called a halt to Merkel's attempt to introduce an automatic response to member states that violate the stability criteria.
Direct talks should concentrate on two parallel tracks. They should attempt to produce an immediate cessation of violence from both sides while simultaneously focusing on a permanent settlement of our conflict.

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