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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
- 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
- "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
- But success SHALL crown my endeavours.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- 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
- ...and has endeavoured to bring...Thomas Jefferson et al. -- The Declaration of Independence
- It was in vain that Fortunato, uplifting his dull torch, endeavored to pry into the depths of the recess.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Cask of Amontillado
- I may well be a flop at this line of endeavor.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- Twenty survivors, all well qualified for our planned endeavor.James Dashner -- The Maze Runner
endeavor = try or attempt
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endeavoured = tried or attempted
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endeavouring = trying or attempting
endeavour = project (attempting to do something else)
endeavouring = trying or attempting
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endeavours = attempts
endeavoured = tried or attempted
endeavoured = tried or attempted
endeavored = tried or attempted