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Answer for the clue "Tried for ", 6 letters:
sought
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seek \Seek\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sought ; p. pr. & vb. n. Seeking .] [OE. seken, AS. s[=e]can, s[=e]cean; akin to OS. s[=o]kian, LG. s["o]ken, D. zoeken, OHG. suohhan, G. suchen, Icel. s[ae]kja, Sw. s["o]ka, Dan. s["o]ge, Goth. s[=o]kjan, and E. sake. Cf. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. that is looked for; "the long sought relatives" being searched for; "the most sought-after item was the silver candelabrum" [syn: sought-after(a) ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-pastseek)
Usage examples of sought.
She was as much the master now as he was, and she chafed at the restrictions he constantly sought to place upon her.
Red threads sought him out, searing their way slowly over the metal carpet, leaving deep grooves that smoked and steamed.
Creepers sought to bar their escape, turning them aside at every opportunity, giving pursuit like hungry wolves, skittering along on their metal struts and spindly legs, strange and awkward machines.
An odd mix of hisses and shrieks rose from the trapped creatures as they sought to evade the burning ropes and failed.
Antrax had been programmed to solve the puzzles that confronted it, and so it sought a solution to that one.
All of them sought answers to what had happened to their friends, and there could be no peace of mind until those answers were found.
It was the voyage Walker sought to make, and I was seeing small parts of it.
Others had sought to breach her defenses, to convince her of their rightness, to twist her thinking to suit their own.
The sensations emerged from the green of the jungle, from the emerald sea he sought to swim, reaching out to him.
A machine that built machines, a creation of the technology of the Old World, it had known to test the capabilities of those it sought to snare.
Those were the dark places into which they had wandered and from which they sought to return.
Which ones would most benefit the world he lived in and the people he sought to help?
It was an infinite maze, but ultimately there was only one right path for each human who sought to navigate its twisting corridors.
He had brought her with him to give him insight into what the future held, but he had never imagined that the insight he sought would come to him in such a roundabout way.
Druid in favor of the magic they both sought, yet she could not ignore his presence.