Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to attempt
Participle: attempted
Gerund: attempting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | attempt |
| you | attempt |
| he;she;it | attempts |
| we | attempt |
| you | attempt |
| they | attempt |
Perfect
| I | have attempted |
| you | have attempted |
| he;she;it | has attempted |
| we | have attempted |
| you | have attempted |
| they | have attempted |
Past
| I | attempted |
| you | attempted |
| he;she;it | attempted |
| we | attempted |
| you | attempted |
| they | attempted |
Pluperfect
| I | had attempted |
| you | had attempted |
| he;she;it | had attempted |
| we | had attempted |
| you | had attempted |
| they | had attempted |
Future
| I | will attempt |
| you | will attempt |
| he;she;it | will attempt |
| we | will attempt |
| you | will attempt |
| they | will attempt |
Future Perfect
| I | will have attempted |
| you | will have attempted |
| he;she;it | will have attempted |
| we | will have attempted |
| you | will have attempted |
| they | will have attempted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | attempt |
| you | attempt |
| he;she;it | attempt |
| we | attempt |
| you | attempt |
| they | attempt |
Perfect
| I | have attempted |
| you | have attempted |
| he;she;it | have attempted |
| we | have attempted |
| you | have attempted |
| they | have attempted |
Imperfect
| I | attempted |
| you | attempted |
| he;she;it | attempted |
| we | attempted |
| you | attempted |
| they | attempted |
Pluperfect
| I | had attempted |
| you | had attempted |
| he;she;it | had attempted |
| we | had attempted |
| you | had attempted |
| they | had attempted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would attempt |
| you | would attempt |
| he;she;it | would attempt |
| we | would attempt |
| you | would attempt |
| they | would attempt |
Perfect
| I | would have attempted |
| you | would have attempted |
| he;she;it | would have attempted |
| we | would have attempted |
| you | would have attempted |
| they | would have attempted |
Imperative
| you | attempt |
| we | Let's attempt |
| you | attempt |
Verbs conjugated like 'attempt'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'attempt'
adempt,
attemper,
attempre,
attest,
reattempt,
tempt,
accept,
accompt,
assumpt,
astert,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- try
- aspire, endeavor, strive, essay, seek, venture, undertake
- attack
- assail, combat, assault
Antonyms
- attack
- defend, protect, shield, shelter
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1425 (implied in
attemptation), from O.Fr.
attempter (14c.), earlier
attenter, from L.
attemptare "to try," from
ad- "to, upon" +
temptare "to try" (see tempt). The noun is first recorded c.1534.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
4. Proto-Italic *ad
5. Proto-Italic *ad-
6. Latin ad-
7. Latin temptō
8. Latin attemptōder.
9. Old French atempterbor.
10. Middle English attempten
11. English attempt
12. Late 14th century, as Middle English attempten, from Old French atempter, from Latin attemptō (“to try, solicit”), from ad- (“to”) + temptō; see tempt.
13. The noun is from the 1530s, the sense "an assault on somebody's life, assassination attempt" (French attentat) is from 1580. By surface analysis, at- + tempt. See: Latin '
attemptō'.
Verbs referencing "attempt"
Albanian
tentoj.
Sample Sentences
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A head-wind! Imagine a human face upon the vessel 's prow, with fifteen thousand Samsons in one bent upon driving her back, and hitting her exactly between the eyes whenever she attempts to advance an inch. Imagine the ship herself, with every pulse and artery of her huge body swollen and bursting under this maltreatment, sworn to go on or die. Imagine the wind howling, the sea [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] to log, was enough, it seemed, to have dislocated all the bones in the human body. It would be impossible to experience a similar set of sensations, in any other circumstances, unless perhaps in attempting to go up to the top of St. Paul’s in an omnibus. Never, never once, that day, was the coach in any position, attitude, or kind of motion to which we are accustomed in coaches. Never did it make [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] partnership concerns of Messrs. M‘Kane and M‘Allister, who had been engaged in the business of distilling, and resulted in the death of the latter, who was shot down by Mr. M‘Kane, because of his attempting to take possession of seven barrels of whiskey, the property of M‘Kane, which had been knocked off to M‘Allister at a sheriff 's sale at one dollar per barrel. M‘Kane immediately fled and at the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] in the room, who were both partially intoxicated. St. Clare and one or two others made an effort to separate them, and St. Clare received a fatal stab in the side with a bowie-knife, which he was attempting to wrest from one of them.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] capture of the Pearl. We extract the following from the speech of Hon. Horace Mann, one of the legal counsel for the defendants in that case. He says: “ In that company of seventy-six persons, who attempted, in 1848, to escape from the District of Columbia in the schooner Pearl, and whose officers I assisted in defending, there were several young and healthy girls, who had those peculiar attractions of [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)