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Attempted

Attempt \At*tempt"\ (?; 215), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Attempted; p. pr. & vb. n. Attempting.] [OF. atenter, also spelt atempter, F. attenter, fr. L. attentare to attempt; ad + tentare, temptare, to touch, try, v. intens. of tendere to stretch. See Tempt, and cf. Attend.]

  1. 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.

    Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.
    --Longfellow.

  2. To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt. [Obs. or Archaic]

    It made the laughter of an afternoon That Vivien should attempt the blameless king.
    --Thackeray.

  3. To try to win, subdue, or overcome; as, one who attempts the virtue of a woman.

    Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further: Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute.
    --Shak.

  4. To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force; as, to attempt the enemy's camp.

    Without attempting his adversary's life.
    --Motley.

    Syn: See Try.

Wiktionary
attempted
  1. Tried, with the connotation of failure. v

  2. (en-past of: attempt)

WordNet
attempted

adj. tried unsuccessfully; "attempted murder"

Usage examples of "attempted".

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.

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.

In the last chapter some conclusions will be attempted, in an effort to assess what has and has not been achieved in this realm.

Farleyfile system would break down if I attempted to mix with crowds, not to mention the unknown hazards of the Actionist goon squads--what I would babble with a minim dose of neodexocaine in the forebrain none of us liked to think about, me least of all.

Farleyfile system would break down if I attempted to mix with crowds, not to mention the unknown hazards of the Actionist goon squads-what I would babble with a minim dose of neodexocaine in the forebrain none of us liked to think about, me least of all.

He would face everything that protected the House whether he attempted the adamantine doors or the lizard stable wall.

Accordingly in his second consulate also both the abettors of the agrarian law had raised themselves to the hope of carrying the measure, and the tribunes, supposing that a matter frequently attempted in opposition to both consuls might be obtained with the assistance at least of one consul, take it up, and the consul remained stedfast in his sentiments.

To such a dead lock has it been brought by the attempted but impossible amalgamation of North and South.

This was the greatest amphibious operation so far attempted in history.

And then it was that, like the apocryphal mosquito, the Fat and Skinny Club justified its attempted existence.

He classed himself as a witness present at the attempted robbery of the Argyle Museum, and talked along that line.

Whereas an important segment of the natural right school developed the idea of articulating transcendent sovereignty through the real forms of administration, the historicist thinkers of the Enlightenment attempted to conceive the subjectivity of the historical process and thereby find an effective ground for the title and exercise of sovereignty.

From beneath the aumbry little showed of the man who had killed three times and attempted to kill again.