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Testing, as one's patience
Answer for the clue "Testing, as one's patience ", 6 letters:
trying
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Difficult to endure; arduous. 2 irritating, stressful or bothersome. n. (context philosophy English) The act by which one tries something; an attempt. v (present participle of try English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Try \Try\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. tried ; p. pr. & vb. n. Trying .] [OE. trien to select, pick out, F. trier to cull, to out, LL. tritare to triturate (hence the sense of, to thresh, to separate the grain from the straw, to select), L. terere, tritum, to rub, ...
Usage examples of trying.
Tane and Asara were firing on the first Aberrant creature, trying to dissuade it from the panicking manxthwa, but it held fast.
She went into the ablutions area and took a shower, trying to ignore the thing, which continued to watch her, or she presumed it was watching her, through its unblinking golden eye-slit.
I was staring up at the stars, thinking of the Gibson and McIlroy and that abo walking out alive, trying to picture what had really happened, my thoughts ranging and the truth elusive.
I strove again, then, to escape, pulling against the bonds, trying to abraid them against the back of the blade.
You get older daughters trying to protect younger siblings by doing anything they can to keep the abusive father focused on them.
The room was abuzz with lesser courtiers trying to take their first step on the long and slippery ladder to preferment and office.
Banish weighed briefly the prospect of trying to get Abies back on the line, then dismissed it and set down the handset.
She flexed the controls, watching the moire patterns of stress and acceleration shift, trying to correlate them with what she was feeling.
You can waffle around trying to solve all the rest of the problems in the world and still not end up achieving your real objectives.
She glanced round the room again, achingly trying not to focus on Robert and yet helpless to stop herself from focusing on him, from wondering whom he was with.
I frowned at this, and then at his depiction, trying to convince myself that I was muddled, addled, mistaken, in the throes of a concussion, just plain crazy.
Charles was just trying to say that most people around here knew about the feud between Aden and his family.
She paused a moment before laying her hand against the admittance plate, composing her face and trying to calm her racing heartbeat.
I gave an admonitory nod to the girls and walked off, trying to keep my gait steady as I knew their eyes were on me.
Even though, at that moment, the adolescent may be trying to avoid dealing with these tricky emotional situations in-person, navigating these situations online can be a good way to practice skills that later will generalize to their face-to-face encounters.