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词汇 essayed
释义 essayed
past simple and past participle ofessay
essay
verb[ T ]
 old-fashioneduk /eˈseɪ/ us /eˈseɪ/
to try to do something: 努力;奋力
The procedure was first essayed in 1923.1923年有人首次尝试这种做法。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Trying and making an effort
A game
all out
assault
attempt
attempted
commitment
crack
go after someone
go all outidiom
go down swinging/fightingidiom
go for itidiom
go for someone
nose
seek
shoot the worksidiom
smarten (someone/something) up
smarten up your actidiom
spare
square the circleidiom
step on the gasidiom

Examples of essayed


essayed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Descartes essayed two responses, both of them based on a mechanistic account of visual stimulation.
Reading conventional historical sources, chronicles, and pamphlets, alongside play texts, they essayed an interdisciplinary study of spectacles - on the stages of the theatre, the city, and the nation.
Martineau essayed to make the factory system itself a source of sweetness and light, a mass-producer of individuality, humanity, and morality and the means by which workers could culture themselves.
It is perhaps the biggest task that we have ever essayed in our history.
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I would not pay much attention to him on these matters, after what he has essayed to publish.
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Were any change essayed, it would affect many other questions.
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In the course of our proceedings upstairs he essayed to embroil me in this somewhat embarrassing controversy surrounding the position of certain colliery managers in my constituency.
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The squadron essayed further action on the enemy forces after nightfall and achieved considerable success; indeed, it returned to base with sixty prisoners of war.
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No circus ever furnished a better show in its mule-riding department than we enjoyed when those two hundred infantrymen essayed their first mount.
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The cast remained the same in every episode, although they played different characters as each episode essayed a different story.
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During this period, he essayed different kinds of roles.
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Anjali essayed the role of a bold and dominating nurse, with critics again heaping praise on her performance.
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In this film, he essayed a double role, one as a thief and the other as a police officer.
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Later he essayed the role of a villain in many films of the 60s, 70s and 80s.
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In this heroine-centric film, she essayed two roles for the first time.
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