an attempt on sb's life

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• attempt on one's life — attempt to murder, attempt to kill someone …   English contemporary dictionary

• an attempt on someone's life — an act of trying to kill someone : a usually unsuccessful effort to kill someone Police report that there has been an attempt on the actor s life. Someone made an attempt on her life. [=someone tried to kill her] • • • Main Entry: ↑attempt …   Useful english dictionary

• attempt — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ successful ▪ abortive, botched, failed, fruitless, futile, ill fated, misguided, unsuccessful …   Collocations dictionary

• attempt — I n. 1) to make an attempt 2) to foil, thwart an attempt 3) an abortive, fruitless, futile, vain; all out, concerted, last ditch; bold, brazen, daring; crude; deliberate; feeble, halfhearted, weak; first; premature; successful attempt; repeated… …   Combinatory dictionary

• attempt */*/*/ — I UK [əˈtempt] / US noun [countable] Word forms attempt : singular attempt plural attempts 1) an effort to do something one last desperate attempt The government has made no attempt to avert the crisis. attempt on: an attempt on the world record… …   English dictionary

• attempt — at|tempt1 [ ə tempt ] noun count *** an effort to do something: one last desperate attempt The government has made no attempt to avert the crisis. attempt on: an attempt on the world record attempt at: It s his fourth attempt at flying a balloon… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• attempt — [[t]əte̱mpt[/t]] ♦ attempts, attempting, attempted 1) VERB If you attempt to do something, especially something difficult, you try to do it. [V to inf] The only time that we attempted to do something like that was in the city of Philadelphia...… …   English dictionary

• attempt — attemptability, n. attemptable, adj. attempter, n. /euh tempt /, v.t. 1. to make an effort at; try; undertake; seek: to attempt an impossible task; to attempt to walk six miles. 2. Archaic. to attack; move against in a hostile manner: to attempt… …   Universalium

• attempt — /əˈtɛmpt / (say uh tempt), /əˈtɛmt / (say uh temt) verb (t) 1. to make an effort at; try; undertake; seek: to attempt a conversation; to attempt to study. 2. Obsolete to tempt. –noun 3. effort put forth to accomplish something; a trial or essay.… …  

• attempt — at|tempt1 W1S2 [əˈtempt] n 1.) an act of trying to do something, especially something difficult attempt to do sth ▪ All attempts to control inflation have failed. ▪ The protesters made no attempt to resist arrest. ▪ his first unsuccessful attempt …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• attempt — 1 noun (C) 1 an act of trying to do something, especially something difficult: attempt to do sth: All attempts to control inflation have failed. (+ at): He made one last attempt at the world record. | make no attempt: The protestors made no… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English