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Definitions for Trying

[1] extremely annoying, difficult, or the like; straining one's patience and goodwill to the limit: a trying day; a trying experience.
[2] to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.
[3] to test the effect or result of (often followed by out ): to try a new method; to try a recipe out.
[4] to endeavor to evaluate by experiment or experience: to try a new field; to try a new book.
[5] to test the quality, value, fitness, accuracy, etc., of: Will you try a spoonful of this and tell me what you think of it?
[6] Law . to examine and determine judicially, as a cause; determine judicially the guilt or innocence of (a person).
[7] to put to a severe test; subject to strain, as of endurance, patience, affliction, or trouble; tax: to try one's patience.
[8] to attempt to open (a door, window, etc.) in order to find out whether it is locked: Try all the doors before leaving.
[9] to melt down (fat, blubber, etc.) to obtain the oil; render (usually followed by out ).
[10] 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.
[11] to make an attempt or effort; strive: Try to complete the examination.
[12] Nautical . to lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
[13] an attempt or effort: to have a try at something.
[14] Rugby . a score of three points earned by advancing the ball to or beyond the opponents' goal line.
[15] try on , to put on an article of clothing in order to judge its appearance and fit: You can't really tell how it will look until you try it on.
[16] try out , to use experimentally; test: to try out a new car.
[17] try out for , to compete for (a position, membership, etc.): Over a hundred boys came to try out for the football team.
[18] upsetting, difficult, or annoying a trying day at the office
[19] (when tr, may take an infinitive, sometimes with to replaced by and ) to make an effort or attempt he tried to climb a cliff
[20] (tr often foll by out ) to sample, test, or give experimental use to (something) in order to determine its quality, worth, etc try her cheese flan
[21] (tr) to put strain or stress on he tries my patience
[22] (tr; often passive) to give pain, affliction, or vexation to: I have been sorely tried by those children
[23] to examine and determine the issues involved in (a cause) in a court of law to hear evidence in order to determine the guilt or innocence of (an accused) to sit as judge at the trial of (an issue or person)
[24] (tr) to melt (fat, lard, etc) in order to separate out impurities
[25] (tr usually foll by out ) obsolete to extract (a material) from an ore, mixture, etc, usually by heat; refine
[26] an experiment or trial
[27] an attempt or effort
[28] rugby the act of an attacking player touching the ball down behind the opposing team's goal line, scoring five or, in Rugby League, four points
[29] Also called: try for a point American football an attempt made after a touchdown to score an extra point by kicking a goal or, for two extra points, by running the ball or completing a pass across the opponents' goal line

Words related to Trying

tricky, troublesome, taxing, upsetting, arduous, demanding, strenuous, irritating, stressful, vexing, fatiguing, exacting, rough, annoying, exasperating, aggravating, exigent, hard, irksome, onerous

Words nearby Trying

try one's patience, try out, try square, try-pot, tryhard, trying, trying plane, tryke, tryma, tryout, trypaflavine

Origin of Trying

1250–1300; Middle English trien to try (a legal case) < Anglo-French trier, Old French: to sift, cull, of uncertain origin

Other words from Trying

try·ing·ly , adverb
try·ing·ness , noun
un·try·ing , adjective
pre·try , verb (used with object), pre·tried, pre·try·ing.
re·try , verb, re·tried, re·try·ing.

Word origin for Trying

C13: from Old French trier to sort, sift, of uncertain origin

Synonyms for Trying

arduous, demanding, irritating, strenuous, stressful, taxing, tricky, troublesome, upsetting, vexing, aggravating, annoying, exacting, exasperating, fatiguing, rough, exigent, hard, irksome, onerous, oppressive, pestilent, provocative, severe, sticky, tight, tiresome, tough, wearisome, weighty