Definition of trying

"trying" in the verb sense

1. try, seek, attempt, essay, assay

make an effort or attempt

"He tried to shake off his fears"

"The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"

"The police attempted to stop the thief"

"He sought to improve himself"

"She always seeks to do good in the world"

2. test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay

put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to

"This approach has been tried with good results"

"Test this recipe"

3. judge, adjudicate, try

put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of

"The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"

"The judge tried both father and son in separate trials"

4. sample, try, try out, taste

take a sample of

"Try these new crackers"

"Sample the regional dishes"

5. hear, try

examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process

"The jury had heard all the evidence"

"The case will be tried in California"

6. try

give pain or trouble to

"I've been sorely tried by these students"

7. try, strain, stress

test the limits of

"You are trying my patience!"

8. try, render

melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities

"try the yak butter"

"render fat in a casserole"

9. try on, try

put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice

"Try on this sweater to see how it looks"

"trying" in the adjective sense

1. trying

hard to endure

"fell upon trying times"

2. nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, stressful, trying

extremely irritating to the nerves

"nerve-racking noise"

"the stressful days before a war"

"a trying day at the office"

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Quotations for trying

The poor trying to imitate the powerful, perish. [ Phaedrus ]

The lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere. [ Ward Beecher ]

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure. [ Hamerton ]

Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character. [ Bovee ]

I have made it a rule never to be with a person ten minutes without trying to make him happier. [ Dr. Raffler ]

Always! that is a dreadful word. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death. [ Thomas Paine ]

If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we build to that. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Every man must bear his own burden, and it is a fine thing to see any one trying to do it manfully; carrying his cross bravely, silently, patiently, and in a way which makes you hope that he has taken for his pattern the greatest of all sufferers. [ James Hamilton ]

Man reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven. [ Humboldt ]

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, called New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. Little old New York's good enough for us - that's what they sing. [ O. Henry, A Tempered Wind ]

If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

You will get more profit from trying to find where beauty is, than in anxiously inquiring what it is. Once for all, it remains undemonstrable; it appears to us, as in a dream, when we behold the works of the great poets and painters; and in short, of all feeling artists; it is a hovering, shining, shadowy form, the outline of which no definition holds. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Though no participator in the joys of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures, in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practice toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another.... And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal. [ John Ruskin ]

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking. I do not know just when I began to smoke, I only know that it was in my father's lifetime, and that I was discreet. He passed from this life early in 1847, when I was a shade past eleven; ever since then I have smoked publicly. As an example to others, and - not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. It is a good rule. I mean, for me; but some of you know quite well that it wouldn't answer for everybody that's trying to get to be seventy. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

trying in Scrabble®

The word trying is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters trying:

TRYING
(42)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word trying

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trying in Words With Friends™

The word trying is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters trying:

TRYING
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word trying

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Words within the letters of trying

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3 letter words in trying (6 words)

4 letter words in trying (6 words)

5 letter words in trying (1 word)

6 letter words in trying (1 word)

trying + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence trying

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Word Growth involving trying

Shorter words in trying

try

in yin

Longer words containing trying

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