Definitions for trying

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trying try·ing

Spelling: [trahy-ing]

IPA: /ˈtraɪ ɪŋ/

Trying is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in trying (ginrty).

Definitions for trying

noun

1. an attempt or effort:
2. Rugby. a score of three points earned by advancing the ball to or beyond the opponents' goal line.

Idioms

1. give it the old college try, Informal. to make a sincere effort:
2. try it / that on, Chiefly British Informal. to put on airs: to be forward or presumptuous, especially with a member of the opposite sex:

adjective

1. extremely annoying, difficult, or the like; straining one's patience and goodwill to the limit:

Verb phrases

1. try on, to put on an article of clothing in order to judge its appearance and fit:
2. try out, to use experimentally; test:
3. try out for, to compete for (a position, membership, etc.):

verb (used with object)

1. to attempt to do or accomplish:
2. to test the effect or result of (often followed by out):
3. to endeavor to evaluate by experiment or experience:
4. to test the quality, value, fitness, accuracy, etc., of:
5. Law. to examine and determine judicially, as a cause; determine judicially the guilt or innocence of (a person).
6. to put to a severe test; subject to strain, as of endurance, patience, affliction, or trouble; tax:
7. to attempt to open (a door, window, etc.) in order to find out whether it is locked:
8. to melt down (fat, blubber, etc.) to obtain the oil; render (usually followed by out).
9. Archaic. to determine the truth or right of (a quarrel or question) by test or battle (sometimes followed by out). to find to be right by test or experience.

verb (used without object)

1. to make an attempt or effort; strive:
2. Nautical. to lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.

Origin of trying

1570-80 for general sense; 1710-20 for current sense; try + -ing²

Examples for trying

But I tell you, I am trying to find out what the matter is that you need my help in.

Between 25 and 30, you’re trying to decide how much longer before you start growing a beard and calling yourself ‘Daddy.

He was trying, I think, to demonstrate balance and equivalence.

The gentlemen were smoking, and some of the ladies were trying to look at ease with cigarettes.

Perhaps on his own nowadays, Epstein is trying his best to webmaster over a dozen URLs.

Humans spent a long time domesticating cattle, and what they were trying to do, in essence, was de-domesticate them.

She was trying to extort a promise that she should appear in its pages, which, as we all remember, she did.

"Another tribe is trying to break into our land," he said to himself.

Faal told the FBI that his group was trying “restore democracy to The Gambia and improve the lives of its people.”

What a glorious double stroke it would be, after all their years of trying.