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Definition
to attempt; or a project or activity attempted- I endeavored to get both sides to agree to a compromise.
endeavored = tried or attempted
- I will endeavor to finish by Friday.
- It is a worthwhile endeavor.
- She has endeavored in vain to shift public opinion on the matter.
- I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family,Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol
- I endeavoured to stop them as well as I could.Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
- I continued walking in this manner for some time, endeavouring by bodily exercise to ease the load that weighed upon my mind.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
- ...endeavoured to appreciate or understand what was taking place.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum
- She said nothing; and Eleanor, endeavouring to collect herself and speak with firmness, but with eyes still cast down, soon went on.Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
- Without such assurance I should certainly have left it alone, and bestowed my energy on some other endeavour.Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
- I endeavoured to change my course but quickly found that if I again made the attempt the boat would be instantly filled with water.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- "No, I thank you," she replied, endeavouring to recover herself.Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice
- She sometimes endeavoured for a few minutes to read; but the book was soon thrown aside,Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
- While I have been endeavouring to fill her mind with maxims of prudence, you have been provoking her to reject them.Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
- I saw the justice of his remark, ... and determined to endeavor at improvement.Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- I took a good look at the man and endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- I shut my eyes involuntarily and endeavoured to recollect what were my duties with regard to this destroyer.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- Saying this, he endeavoured to spring from the bed, but the exertion was too great for him; he fell back and fainted.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- He endeavours to fill me with hope and talks as if life were a possession which he valued.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
endeavor = try or attempt
endeavour = try or attempt
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.)
endeavoured = tried or attempted
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.)
endeavouring = trying or attempting
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.)
endeavor = try or attempt
endeavoured = tried or attempted
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.)
endeavouring = trying or attempting
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.)
endeavour = project (attempting to do something else)
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.)
endeavoured = tried
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.)
endeavouring = trying or attempting
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.)
endeavoured = tried or attempted
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.)
endeavouring = trying or attempting
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavoring.)
endeavor = try or attempt
endeavoured = tried or attempted
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.)
endeavoured = tried or attempted
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.)
endeavoured = tried or attempted
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.)
endeavours = attempts
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.)