Usually means: Making an effort to succeed.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word attempting:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. attempting: Merriam-Webster
  2. attempting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. attempting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Attempting: Wordnik
  5. attempting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. attempting: Wiktionary
  7. Attempting, attempting: Dictionary.com
  8. attempting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Attempting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Attempting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. attempting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. attempting: FreeDictionary.org
  13. attempting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. attempting: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  15. attempting: Wordnik

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. attempting: Legal dictionary

(Note: See attempt as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (attempt)

verb:  To try.
verb:  (obsolete) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
verb:  (archaic) To try to win, subdue, or overcome.
verb:  (archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.
noun:  The action of trying at something.
noun:  An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt.
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