try(ATTEMPT)

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to try to do something
tryI'll try to call her again.
attemptI have never attempted to run a marathon.
endeavourUKEngineers are endeavouring to locate the source of the problem.
seekThey sought to reassure the public.
battleHe was battling to fix the roof in the rain.
striveWith limited resources, they are striving to make the school a better one.
We must strive to narrow the gap between rich and poor.我们必须努力缩小贫富差距。
We strive to ensure that all children are treated equally.
We strive for perfection but sometimes have to accept something less.
We are constantly striving to improve our service.
The former leader now has to watch his successor unpicking much of what he strived so hard to achieve.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Trying and making an effort
A game
all out
assault
attempt
attempted
commitment
give something your best shotidiom
go after someone
go all outidiom
go down swinging/fightingidiom
go for someone
nose
shoot for something
shoot for the moonidiom
shoot the worksidiom
smarten (someone/something) up
smarten up your actidiom
spare
stretch
struggle

strive | American Dictionary

strive
verb[ I ]
us/strɑɪv/past tensestroveus/stroʊv/strived | past participlestrivenus/ˈstrɪv·ən/strived
to try hard to do something or make something happen, esp. for a long time or against difficulties:
[ + to infinitive ]Neither Jefferson nor Madison was a pacifist, though both strove to keep America at peace.

Examples of strive

strive
The editors have striven to give the floor to competing points of view without losing technical focus.
An individual is supposed to be influenced by these aspects of informal and formal care when striving toward an optimal formal-informal care mix.
She also had strived to retire on a sufficient pension.
I do not believe that elderly people should strive to be ' young ' or that they should be encouraged to do so.
They paid taxes, obeyed administrators and contributed to military conscription, but strived to maintain cultural hegemony over what they considered as their sacred space.
Since the efficiency and performance of this technology is strongly hindered by fouling, future developments in membrane filters strive to reduce this phenomenon.
Let us start with the simple assumption : that politicians, whether military or civilian, strive to maintain office.
In the first place conservation will have to be striven for.
A fundamental aspect of such design necessarily involves a rejection of the assumption that we strive for efficiency, perfection, or majority acceptance.
Its striving toward documentary reality notwithstanding, this is footage from a very particular news network, arguably with its own interests and agenda.
Second, we have difficulties with judgments of value, and we strive for facts and immediate results.
It is essentially human to be at once an inheritor, part of a culture, and an innovator, creatively striving within or against tradition.
To the military commanders of many of these countries, he strove to become an admired acquaintance, if not a close friend.
As a consequence it is difficult to mobilise and press for effective rights of citizenship, or strive to hold newly democratic governments to account.
These impact the nature of resources available to families and primary health care practitioners as they strive to achieve goals in care.
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