attempt
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
attempt/əˈtempt/
▶verb make an effort to achieve or complete.
■ try to climb to the top of (a mountain).
▶noun an act of attempting.■ a bid to kill someone.
– derivatives
attemptable adjective.
attemptable adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. attempter, from L. attemptare, from ad- ‘to’ + temptare ‘to tempt’.
'attempt' also found in these Oxford entries:
abstract
- air shot
- assault
- assay
- attack
- ball
- bash
- blackmail
- blood doping
- bluff
- body-check
- bowl
- boycott
- bribe
- Brownie
- brutal
- bullshit
- burl
- challenge
- cherry
- Chinese chequers
- clampdown
- coconut shy
- cold-call
- conation
- court
- cover-up
- crack
- dawn raid
- decapitate
- defend
- drum
- effort
- emulate
- end run
- essay
- false start
- field
- finesse
- fob
- foozle
- foray
- free throw
- frustrated
- fudge
- go
- goal kick
- grab
- have
