attempt

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ successful

▪ abortive, botched, failed, fruitless, futile, ill-fated, misguided, unsuccessful, vain

▪ her vain attempt to save her son's life

▪ conscious, deliberate

▪ bold, brave, concerted, determined, serious, valiant

▪ blatant

▪ feeble, half-hearted, lame, pathetic, weak

▪ She smiled at my feeble attempt at humour/humor.

▪ I made a half-hearted attempt at cleaning my apartment.

▪ clumsy, crude

▪ desperate, frantic, last-ditch

▪ a desperate attempt to find survivors

▪ repeated

▪ repeated attempts to break through enemy lines

▪ first

▪ That's not bad for a first attempt.

▪ assassination, coup, escape, rescue, suicide

▪ Rescue attempts were stopped because of bad weather.

VERB + ATTEMPT

▪ make

▪ She has made no attempt to contact her mother.

▪ succeed in

▪ He succeeded in his attempt to break the world record.

▪ abandon, fail in, give up

▪ He abandoned his attempt to reach the summit.

▪ foil, thwart

▪ Their attempt to break out of prison was foiled.

▪ resist

▪ The board said it would resist any attempt to take control of the company.

ATTEMPT + VERB

▪ succeed

▪ fail

PREPOSITION

▪ in an/the attempt

▪ In an attempt to ward off criticism, the government has made education a priority.

▪ attempt at

▪ He made a feeble attempt at a smile.

▪ attempt by

▪ an attempt by workers to prevent job losses

PHRASES

▪ an attempt on sb's life (= an attempt to kill sb)

▪ at the first, second, etc. attempt (esp. BrE), in the first, second, etc. attempt (AmE)

▪ I passed my test at/in the first attempt.
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verb

Attempt is used with these nouns as the object: ↑comeback, ↑crossing, ↑escape, ↑feat, ↑manoeuvre, ↑reconciliation, ↑rescue, ↑stunt, ↑suicide

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attempt — 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… … Law dictionary
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 , n. A essay, trial, or endeavor; an undertaking; an attack, or an effort to gain a point; esp. an unsuccessful, as contrasted with a successful, effort. [1913 Webster] By his blindness maimed for high attempts. Milton. [1913 Webster]… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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 — [n] try, effort all one’s got*, attack, bid*, crack*, dry run*, endeavor, exertion, experiment, fling, go, header*, lick*, one’s all, one’s darnedest*, one’s level best*, pursuit, shot, stab, striving, struggle, trial, try, tryout, undertaking,… … New thesaurus
Attempt — This article is about the crime of attempt. For other uses, see wikt:attempt … Wikipedia
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 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

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