1. A conscientious or concerted effort toward an end; an earnest attempt.
2. purposeful or industrious activity; enterprise.
3. to attempt (fulfillment of a responsibility or an obligation, for example) by employment or expenditure of effort: endeavored to improve the quality of life in the inner city.
4. to work with a set or specified goal or purpose.

1. A sincere attempt. A determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.
2. enterprise; assiduous or persistent activity.
3. to attempt through application of effort.
4. to work with purpose.

1. an exertion of physical or intellectual strength toward the attainment of an object; a systematic or continuous attempt; an effort; a trial.
2. to exert one's self; to work for a certain end.
3. to exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.

1. to put, apply, or exert (one's self) to do a thing: used reflexively.
2. to attempt to gain; try to effect; strive to achieve or attain; strive after.
3. to labor or exert one's self to do or effect something; strive; try; make an effort: followed by an infinitive.
4. to direct one's efforts or labor toward some object or end; fix one's course; aim: with at, for, or after.
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6. an effort; an essay; an attempt; an exertion of physical or mental powers toward the attainment of an object.
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1. attempt by employing effort
2. a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness)
3. earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something