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Answer for the clue "Make an effort ", 7 letters:
attempt
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Word definitions for attempt in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French attempter (14c.), earlier atenter "to try, attempt, test," from Latin attemptare "to try" (cognates: Italian attentare , Old Provençal, Portuguese attentar , Spanish atentar ), from ad- "to, upon" (see ad- ) + temptare "to try" ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attempt \At*tempt"\, n. 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. By his blindness maimed for high attempts. --Milton. Attempt to commit a crime (Law), ...
Usage examples of attempt.
Q Factor, though high, is not of any such extraordinary highness as to justify an attempt at psychosurgery to correct the aberration, it is therefore recommended that subject be released from the Communipath Creche on her own recognizance after suitable indoctrination erasure.
Those who remained, many of them, were bitten by the Nazi aberrations and attempted to apply them to pure science.
They may opine that I have been an abettor of treason, that I have attempted to circumvent the ends of justice, and that I may have impersonated you in order to render possible your escape.
In the middle of my attempting to explain that Darlene was not the air-conditioning repairman, Abey Fields came up.
The fables of Atreus, Thiestes, Tereus and Progne signifieth the wicked and abhominable facts wrought and attempted by mortall men.
Lily attempted to regain her ability to breathe, listening to the next song, a slow, moody number.
An attempt to abscond could mean three months and a hundred lashes in addition.
He should boast of his accomplishment and use it as a warning to any others who might attempt to abscond with the affections of his mate.
He was arrested, charged with attempting to abscond and sent back to Wayland, where he remained until he had completed his sentence.
StregaSchloss on the end of a moth-eaten damask curtain was a bad idea, or maybe the sight of the Borgia money going to such an undeserving home had simply robbed the estate lawyer of the will to live, but miraculously his abseiling suicide attempt didnt kill him.
The ecotheorists further take this metabiological absolutizing and not only attempt to explain culture with its terms, but also necessarily see culture as a lamentable deviation from those terms: all conclusions guaranteed by the prior absolutizing.
They continued yesterday the tense and prolonged process of attempting to lure Abies out of the cabin.
In the last chapter some conclusions will be attempted, in an effort to assess what has and has not been achieved in this realm.
There was also an attempt to obtain aconitine, which was not successful.
Margland was a woman of family and fashion, but reduced, through the gaming and extravagance of her father, to such indigence, that, after sundry failures in higher attempts, she was compelled to acquiesce in the good offices of her friends, which placed her as a governess in the house of Sir Hugh.