attempt suomeksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-suomi)

To try.
(obsolete) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
(archaic) To try to win, subdue, or overcome.
(archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.
(criminal law) To make a substantial but unsuccessful effort (to commit a crime).

to attempt the enemy's camp
attempted murder murhayritys
My first attempt was a failure.
1584 No man can charge us of any attempt against the realm. (Allen's Defence Of English Catholics, cited after Edinburgh review 1883, p. 378)
But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea
It was worth the attempt.
This poem is much better than the feeble attempt of mine.
We made an attempt to cross the stream, but didn't manage.
without attempting his adversary's life
I attempted to sing, but my throat was too hoarse.
Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further: / Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute.
one who attempts the virtue of a woman
It made the laughter of an afternoon / That Vivien should attempt the blameless king.
A group of 80 budding mountaineers attempted Kilimanjaro, but 30 of them didn't make it to the top.
Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
Something attempted, something done, / Has earned a night's repose.
to attempt an escape from prison

Partisiipin perfekti	attempted	Imperfekti	attempted
Partisiipin preesens	attempting	Monikko	attempts
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens	attempts	Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens	attempteth (vanhahtava)

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