attempt
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- noun
- /əˈtɛmpt/
- NSFW
:
intento de asesinato
- There may be another attempt on his life.
- attempt on someone's life
- assassination attempt
- coup attempt
He'd been suicidal, had suicide attempts, he had ECT.
- He'd been suicidal, had suicide attempts, he had ECT.
- Like she literally tells Cole that like his little suicide attempts are pitiful.
- Do you think it was an attempt to reduce the population?
- A lot of things, even after my assassination attempt, I couldn't help them a lot.
- And this brings up the unfortunate and near assassination attempt of Donald Trump.
- In fact, you have had multiple assassination attempts on your life.
- It precedes the onset of suicide attempt, and it precedes the suicide completion.
- That night I I made my first of three suicide attempts.
- And I got them off after the home invasion attempt.
- Things like obesity, addiction, suicide attempts, depression.
Examples
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The attempt on my life occurred at approximately two minutes after the chime of midnight.
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But his attempt to murder three innocent men... to protect his own reputation will be prevented by the General Staff.
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We do know that there will be an attempt on your man sometime before the trial begins.
Fiction book (1991) -
People of Cuba, today alien forces made an attempt on my life.
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But so the first successful assassination attempt was on Abraham Lincoln.
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There must've been like... 10, 12 attempts on his life.
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There was an attempt on Taktra Rinpoche's life.
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Forty-six people died in an attempt to overthrow the Batista regime in Cuba.
Fiction book (1992) -
There may be another attempt on his life.
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We have absolutely no evidence linking Vallon to the attempt on his life.
Synonyms
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A violent action that harms people or damages things
Compounds
- Texting
An action that only looks like support for social justice but does not help
How Violent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Attempt comes from the same old root as tempt, which meant 'to test' or 'to try' in earlier language. So an 'attempt' on someone's life is literally a 'try' to harm or kill that person.