ATTEMPT meaning: Effort to achieve a goal

We found 41 dictionaries that define the word Attempt:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

attempt: Merriam-Webster
attempt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
attempt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
attempt: Collins English Dictionary
attempt: Vocabulary.com
Attempt, attempt: Wordnik
attempt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
attempt: Wiktionary
attempt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
attempt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
attempt: Infoplease Dictionary
attempt: Dictionary.com
attempt (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
attempt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Attempt (crime), Attempt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Attempt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
attempt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
attempt: Rhymezone
attempt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
attempt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
attempt: FreeDictionary.org
attempt: Mnemonic Dictionary
attempt: TheFreeDictionary.com
attempt: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
attempt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
attempt: Merriam-Webster

Business (8 matching dictionaries)

attempt: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
attempt: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
attempt: Law.com Dictionary
Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
attempt: Legal dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

attempt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)

Squash Glossary (No longer online)
Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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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.

Similar:

try, assay, endeavor, effort, undertake, seek, set about, endeavour, attack, essay, more...

Opposite:

abandon, avoid, neglect, disregard, shun

Types:

suicide, kidnapping, robbery, arson, carjacking, bombing, hijacking, more...

Phrases:

Suicide attempt, assassination attempt, rescue attempt, takeover attempt, pickoff attempt, more...

Adjectives:

first, serious, second, unsuccessful, last, desperate, least, vain, deliberate, further, successful

Colors:

red, yellow, orange, green, blue, more...