Effort: alternatives and connections

The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.

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The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object.

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The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…

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productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

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A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.

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An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.

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The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

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of Bat

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Fertile. See Battel, a.

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Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cl…

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of Bid

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The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship.

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Candidacy.

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The act of contributing.

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To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

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A wearing off or away.

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The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a…

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The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.

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of Electioneer

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An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.

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The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; o…

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of Exercise

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To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.

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A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.

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Gone.

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It.

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The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

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A striving; an effort; a conatus.

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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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Excessive exertion.

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Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.

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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

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of Rally

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To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to am…

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of Rub

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of Run

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of Seek

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The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.

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of Shoot

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To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

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To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to sta…

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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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of Strain

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of Strive

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To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

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To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.

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The act of supererogating; performance of more than duty or necessity requires.

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A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

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The act of trying or testing in any manner.

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To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

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Ware; aware.

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To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.

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Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in a physical or moral sense. See Worse.

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To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.

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An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign.

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That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the…

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To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to;…

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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.

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The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort…

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A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great.

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An act; a deed; an exploit.

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The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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of Sweat

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Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

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To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

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