Endeavor: alternatives and connections

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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Trial; attempt; essay.

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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 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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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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The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Sick.

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Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.

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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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of Undertake

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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 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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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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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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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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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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A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It…

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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 Strive

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

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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 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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Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

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

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That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduo…

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That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduo…

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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 exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle…

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That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduo…

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To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.

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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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