Make+an+attempt
11attempt — /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.… …
12attempt — 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,… …
13attempt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. & v. try, endeavor, essay; attack. See undertaking. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. trial, try, struggle, endeavor; see effort 1 , 2 . v. Syn. try, endeavor, strive, venture; see try 1 . See Synonym Study at… …
14attempt — 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… …
15attempt — 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… …
16attempt — I. v. a. 1. Try, essay, make trial or experiment of. 2. Undertake, go about, set about, take in hand, endeavor to accomplish. 3. Assail, attack, assault, etc., which see. II. v. n. Try, strive, endeavor, seek, aim, make an attempt, make essay, do …
17make no secret of something — to make no attempt to hide your feelings about something He s made no secret of the fact that he d like to manage the club …
18make up to — (informal) CURRY FAVOUR WITH, cultivate, try to win over, court, ingratiate oneself with; informal suck up to, butter up; N. Amer. informal shine up to; archaic blandish. → make * * * informal attempt to win the f …
19attempt — at·tempt n: the crime of having the intent to commit and taking action in an effort to commit a crime that fails or is prevented – called also criminal attempt; see also impossibility ◇ There is no settled answer to how close to completing a… …
20attempt — 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.… …
