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• 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 — vb Attempt, try, endeavor, essay, strive, struggle as verbs mean to make an effort to do something that may or may not be successful and as nouns (the single exception in form being striving) mean the effort made to accomplish such an end.… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• 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},… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Attempt — At*tempt , v. i. To make an attempt; with upon. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• attempt — Synonyms and related words: accept, affair, aim to, approach, assault, assay, assume, attack, attempt to, begin, beginning, bid, buckle to, business, care, chance, commence, commencement, commitment, contract, crack, dare, dare to, deal, effort,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• attempt — 01. He was killed while [attempting] to cross the Pacific Ocean in a hot air balloon. 02. Sony Corp. has begun an aggressive new marketing campaign in an [attempt] to become the number one seller of VCRs in North America. 03. The youth made an… …   Grammatical examples in English

• attempt — {{11}}attempt (n.) 1530s, from ATTEMPT (Cf. attempt) (v.). Meaning effort to accomplish something by violence is from 1580s, especially as an assault on someone s life. {{12}}attempt (v.) late 14c., from O.Fr. attempter (14c.), earlier atenter to …   Etymology dictionary

• attempt — v 1. make an effort, try, work at, strive, aspire to, aim for, set one s sights on; undertake, take in hand, take upon oneself, try one s hand at; venture, essay, seek to, set out to, drive at, go about; do one s best, Sl. shoot one s bolt,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• Berwick-Upon-Tweed —    BERWICK UPON TWEED, a port, borough, market town, parish, and county of itself, 55 miles (E. by S.) from Edinburgh, and 334 (N. by W.) from London; containing 8484 inhabitants. The name of this town, which Leland supposes to have been… …   A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

• Reagan assassination attempt — The Reagan assassination attempt occurred on March 30, 1981, just 69 days into the presidency of Ronald Reagan. While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and three others were shot… …   Wikipedia

• 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt — 1991 Soviet coup d etat attempt August Coup/August Putsch Russian: Августовский путч Part of the Revolutions of 1989, Cold War, and Dissolution of the Soviet Union …   Wikipedia