Synonyms for try
traɪtry

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1. trynoun

   To attempt. Followed by infinitive.

   I gave unicycling a try but I couldn’t do it.

   Synonyms:
   attempt, whirl, stab, bash, go

2. trynoun

   To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.

   I gave sushi a try but I didn’t like it.

   Synonyms:
   sampling, tasting, taste

3. tryverb

   A score in rugby, analogous to a touchdown in American football.

   Today I scored my first try.

   Synonyms:
   touchdown

4. tryverb

   To taste, sample, etc.

   Try this—you’ll love it.

   Synonyms:
   sample, taste

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. try

   Castigate and chastise refer strictly to corporal punishment, tho both are somewhat archaic; correct and punish are often used as euphemisms in preference to either. Punish is distinctly retributive in sense; chastise, partly retributive, and partly corrective; chasten, wholly corrective. Chasten is used exclusively in the spiritual sense, and chiefly of the visitation of God.

   Synonyms:
   afflict, castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, discipline, humble, punish, purify, refine, soften, subdue

   Preposition:
   "We are chastened of the Lord," 1 Cor. xi, 32; "they ... chastened us after their own pleasure, but He for our profit," Heb. xii, 10; "chasten in thy hot displeasure," Ps. iv, 7; chasten with pain; by trials and sorrows.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. try

   Synonyms:
   attempt, endeavor, strive, aim, examine, test, sound, gauge, probe, fathom

   Antonyms:
   ignore, pretermit, reject, abandon, discard, misexamine, misinvestigate

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1. attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, tryverb

   earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something

   "made an effort to cover all the reading material"; "wished him luck in his endeavor"; "she gave it a good try"

   Synonyms:
   attempt, endeavour, elbow grease, travail, exploit, feat, drive, effort, movement, campaign, sweat, attack, cause, enterprise, crusade, exertion, endeavor

2. try, seek, attempt, essay, assayverb

   make an effort or attempt

   "He tried to shake off his fears"; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"; "The police attempted to stop the thief"; "He sought to improve himself"; "She always seeks to do good in the world"

   Synonyms:
   attempt, examine, search, stress, adjudicate, strain, essay, seek, look for, assay, try out, prove, test, try on, taste, hear, set about, undertake, sample, judge, render

3. test, prove, try, try out, examine, essayverb

   put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to

   "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"

   Synonyms:
   audition, rise, analyze, leaven, sample, show, testify, establish, test, evidence, try out, study, examine, see, seek, try on, probe, quiz, attempt, essay, raise, adjudicate, render, prove, shew, judge, screen, taste, turn out, demonstrate, turn up, experiment, strain, analyse, stress, hear, canvass, assay, canvas, bear witness

4. judge, adjudicate, tryverb

   put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of

   "The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"; "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials"

   Synonyms:
   attempt, examine, guess, pass judgment, stress, adjudicate, strain, essay, gauge, test, label, settle, assay, try out, prove, estimate, resolve, taste, pronounce, hear, evaluate, approximate, sample, judge, render, try on, seek, decide

5. sample, try, try out, tasteverb

   take a sample of

   "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes"

   Synonyms:
   attempt, examine, stress, adjudicate, strain, audition, essay, seek, savour, assay, taste, prove, test, try on, smack, hear, experiment, try out, sample, judge, render, savor

6. hear, tryverb

   examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process

   "The jury had heard all the evidence"; "The case will be tried in California"

   Synonyms:
   attempt, take heed, stress, try out, strain, get wind, essay, seek, get word, hear, listen, learn, get a line, prove, test, try on, taste, assay, find out, discover, examine, pick up, adjudicate, sample, judge, render, see

7. tryverb

   give pain or trouble to

   "I've been sorely tried by these students"

   Synonyms:
   attempt, examine, stress, adjudicate, strain, essay, seek, assay, try out, prove, test, try on, taste, hear, sample, judge, render

8. try, strain, stressverb

   test the limits of

   "You are trying my patience!"

   Synonyms:
   punctuate, strive, tense up, deform, sample, essay, filter out, test, try out, sift, reach, sieve, puree, examine, extend, seek, try on, filter, accentuate, separate out, strain, adjudicate, render, prove, emphasise, distort, judge, taste, filtrate, attempt, accent, tense, stress, hear, assay, emphasize

9. try, renderverb

   melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities

   "try the yak butter"; "render fat in a casserole"

   Synonyms:
   supply, hand over, sample, essay, return, depict, test, deliver, try out, fork over, fork up, show, examine, picture, stress, seek, try on, give, attempt, turn in, strain, adjudicate, render, provide, prove, judge, yield, taste, fork out, furnish, translate, generate, interpret, hear, assay, submit

10. try on, tryverb

    put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice

    "Try on this sweater to see how it looks"

    Synonyms:
    attempt, examine, stress, adjudicate, strain, essay, seek, assay, taste, prove, test, try on, hear, try out, sample, judge, render

Matched Categories

1. • Afflict
   • Cooking
   • Decide
   • Examine
   • Ingest
   • Melt
   • Pain
   • Wear

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. attemp

   to do something

   "he will try to make that jump at 2:00 o clock

   Submitted by JP03 on October 26, 2014  

2. attempt

   you try to do something you attempt

   Submitted by anonymous on January 19, 2021  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tryverb

   Synonyms:
   examine, test, prove, make experiment of, make trial of, put to the test, put to proof

2. tryverb

   Synonyms:
   experience, have knowledge of (by trial)

3. tryverb

   Synonyms:
   attempt, essay

4. tryverb

   Synonyms:
   hear, examine judicially

5. tryverb

   Synonyms:
   attempt, endeavor, strive, aim, seek, make an effort, make essay, do one's best, do all that in one lies, strain every nerve, leave no stone unturned

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1. trynoun

   Synonyms:
   attempt, essay, trial, experiment, trial

2. tryverb

   Synonyms:
   test, examine, prove, attempt, essay, endeavor, purify, refine, hear, adjudicate, adjudge, strive, seek, strain

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "try":

   attempt, seek, endeavour, strive, prosecute, tempt, test, judge, attempting, ytl

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1. Palm Beach:

   This is a simple equation, if you don’t try to shoot us, if you don’t try to stab us, you don’t try to run over us with a car, and you don’t try to beat us up, then everything’s going to be fine.

2. Giovanni Cocco:

   I try to understand what her way of looking at reality is. I try to capture what she captures, the worlds I see around Monia would not exist without her. They recount her personality. That is why I try to depict the visual space that surrounds her, even through an obscured, unclear view.

3. Elijah Cummings:

   It is unacceptable for anyone -- including the President -- to try to bully or intimidate our witnesses, to try to get them not to testify, to try to scare or threaten their family members, or to try to interfere with Congress' search for the truth, house Oversight Committee has a long and bipartisan history of protecting the ability of witnesses to provide their information to us without even the appearance of intimidation or retaliation.

4. Semyon Varlamov:

   Every time you play the game, the forwards always try to surprise you with a different movement and everybody’s going to try to do different things on the ice, when you play so many times against the best players in the league, you kind of start learning of course what they do against you, what they try to do, so you try to learn these things.

5. Tina Fey:

   I’m on a plane, trying to write the thing … trying to provide some relief, you try your best, you try to have your eyes open, try to be so mindful, but it’s also a fast-moving train. I felt like a gymnast who did like a very solid routine and broke her ankle on the landing. Because it’s literally within the last 2-3 sentences of the piece that I chumped it. And I screwed up, and the implication was that I was telling people to give up and not be active and to not fight. That wasnotmy intention, obviously. … I didn’t want anybody to get hurt. … If I had a time machine, I could go back…I would end the piece by saying… ‘Fight them in every way except the way that they want.’ But I didn’t write that in time! I wrote that two days later as I was pacing in my house. It’s painful. I wanted to help, but I chumped it. But the culture of apology is not for me.