Trying is valid Scrabble Word

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6 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for TRYING in dictionary:

VERB:

make an attempt or effort to do something
use, test, or do (something new or different) in order to see if it is suitable, effective, or pleasant
attempt to achieve or attain
compete or audition for (a post or place on a team)
attempt to contact
push or pull (a door or window) to determine whether it is locked
make severe demands on (a person or a quality, typically patience)
subject (someone) to trial
investigate and decide (a case or issue) in a formal trial
smooth (roughly planed wood) with a plane to give an accurately flat surface.

extract (oil or fat) by heating

RESIDUAL:

Turkish lira (or lire).

NOUN:

the act of trying
an effort to accomplish something; an attempt
an act of trying something new or different to see if it is suitable, effective, or pleasant
an act of touching the ball down behind the opposing goal line, scoring points and entitling the scoring side to a kick at goal.
an attempt to score an extra point after a touchdown.

ADJECTIVE:

demanding, annoying
Adapted to try, or put to severe trial; severe; afflictive; as, a trying occasion or position.
hard to endure
extremely irritating to the nerves

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to attempt

Words related to TRYING

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Words that contain TRYING

tryings11 retrying12 tryingly15 tryingness14 tapestrying17 tryingnesses16

How to use TRYING in a sentence

Awhile, I stood, trying to adjust my thoughts to this new problem.
In a minute or two he had reached Main Street, and stood looking up and down it, trying to decide which way to go.
Washington rode hither and thither trying his best to save the day.
In vain she marshalled the circumstances about him, trying to make herself hate him.
Did they realize that I was trying to discover by what means the schooner was propelled? Very likely, and Captain Spade, who had looked on, must have known it, too.
He had a voice, though not a remarkable one, but he had shirked the labour of trying to improve it by practice.
But what was there to say? It is a little trying, this meeting people who cannot converse intelligently upon anything that has happened since the seventeenth century.
The cattle swam till they sank, Trying to find a bank.
Two were lying at full length a little distance away, while a fourth was trying to decipher a letter and had drawn close to the light.
Such people need a lot of patience shown them, but you must go on trying.

He was trying to invent something that would dig the ditch, and fill in the dirt again after the pipe was laid.
Then Bland Halliday turned his attention to certain raw places on his person, trying to ease them by putting all his weight on what he termed the foot-controls.
A player must keep his head no matter how trying the circumstances may be.
I started drinking, trying to forget that Port Albert man, but it was no use.
It was this that seemed to be causing the trouble which the red-faced man and the lanky boy were trying to make better.
I am trying here to get contracts for the supplying the cities of France with whale-oil, by the Boston merchants.
But it is exceedingly trying for travellers, man and beast.
For several minutes he remained quiet, trying to collect his thoughts.
TRYING TO COME TO TERMS As the mate went down the girls gave a scream, and even Tom and Sam looked at Dick in wonder.
It is not a small or easy thing to endure what these have endured, and surely what they deemed worth life itself is worth trying to understand.
CHAPTER XI A TRYING TIME For a moment following the announcement no one spoke.
Tom watched the ground as bullets struck, trying to decide their original course from the directions in which the dust flew.
In the proclamation the King posed as the champion of law and order against a disloyal faction trying to overthrow the constitution.
He could catch one of them without half trying, and there he lies as if he expected them to run right into his mouth.
Beyond the bare chance which lay in getting to the hillside and trying to keep out of sight of the men when they landed, there seemed to be nothing we could do.
Leslie was always trying to get at the truth, and nobody recognized more clearly the service which the reverent and truly progressive younger men were rendering to the profession.
There was no use trying to foil these feminine creatures.

Similar words containing TRY without suffix ing

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