Skip to main content

attempted

/uh-tempt/US // əˈtɛmpt //UK // (əˈtɛmpt) //

尝试的,试图,尝试过,尝试过的

Related Words

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make an effort at; try; undertake; seek: to attempt an impossible task; to attempt to walk six miles.
    • : Archaic. to attack; move against in a hostile manner: to attempt a person's life.
    • : Archaic. to tempt.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an effort made to accomplish something: He made an attempt to swim across the lake.
    • : an attack or assault: an attempt upon the leader's life.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • After multiple attempts to reach city officials and urge them not to delete the records we sought, Ivey said she was working on the request.

  • After VOSD’s story published, the city attorney’s office went back through its records and found past discussions about an attempt to repeal that section of the municipal code.

  • County Supervisor Kristin Gaspar is running against Ikhrata and SANDAG in general, and their attempts to deprioritize highway spending in favor of transit specifically.

  • Likewise, since every person’s ballot has a unique bar code, the system catches any attempt to vote twice by requesting additional ballots.

  • Another hour into his attempt to get a test, Price realized that he just couldn’t wait any longer.

  • It was the year that Kim Kardashian attempted to break the Internet with hers.

  • The risk to his life was great enough that he had to flee Munich when Hitler attempted to seize power in November 1923.

  • After he allegedly unloaded on the cops, Brinsley attempted to make a getaway to a nearby subway.

  • As a cafe in Sydney, Australia came under siege by a hostage-taking gunman on Monday, those nearby attempted to flee the area.

  • That statistic is based on a survey that includes attempted forced kissing as sexual assault.

  • Some of the alarm returned, however, when the creature attempted to climb up by his own ladder.

  • It was one day when a student from the Stuttgardt conservatory attempted to play the Sonata Appassionata.

  • One little girl attempted to smell at the trees in a drawing and pretended to feed some pictorial dogs.

  • Joseph, with his liberal ideas, had attempted to free the people from clerical thraldom.

  • None the less it is the most nearly true of all the broad generalizations that can be attempted in regard to mankind.