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attempted
adjective as in undertaken
Weak matches
adjective as in ventured
Strong matches
- adventured
- chanced
- dared
- experimented
- gambled
- hazarded
- tested
- tried
Example Sentences
Local residents have also attempted to convince the miners to come out of the mineshaft.
Chapman, then 23, was convicted of murdering Miss Edwards and the attempted murder of two men who were the intended targets of the shooting, as well as wounding three other bystanders and related firearms offences.
The next month, as the Center for Media and Democracy reports, when committee co-chair Liz Cheney announced that Trump had attempted to contact an unnamed witness who was set to testify, Budowich shot back by tweet: “The media has become pawns of the Unselect Committee. Liz Cheney continues to traffic in innuendos and lies that go unchallenged, unconfirmed, but repeated as fact because the narrative is more important than the truth.”
A 2019 study by Syphard attempted to quantify the degree to which home hardening measures actually protected homes against fire by analyzing more than 40,000 structures that faced wildfires from 2013 to 2018 — a period that included the devastating Camp and Woolsey fires.
The defendant, of Old School Close in Banks, is charged with three counts of murder, 10 of attempted murder, possession of a knife, production of biological toxin, ricin, and possession of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing to commit an act of terrorism.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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