trial
/ˈtɹaɪəl/ verb C2- To carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it. · The warning system was extensively trialed before being fitted to all our vehicles.
- To try out (a new player) in a sports team. · The team trialled a new young goalkeeper in Saturday's match, with mixed results.
He/she/it trials · Past trialed · Past participle trialed · -ing form trialing
Verb forms
- Base form
- trial
- He/she/it
- trials
- Past
- trialed
- Past participle
- trialed
- -ing form
- trialing
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“Indeed I am,” replied the young magistrate with a smile; “and in the interesting trial that young lady is anxious to witness, the case would only be still more aggravated.
“What a splendid business that last case of yours was, my dear Villefort!” remarked a third; “I mean the trial of the man for murdering his father.
On being asked how, in so short a time, he could have made a trial of him, he answered, “I do not need a trial; I know that he will be just the same as the one he chose for his companion.”
“Sir,” said he, “I am no longer able, as I had hoped, to restore you immediately to liberty; before doing so, I must consult the trial justice; what my own feeling is you already know.”
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