endeavor
/ɛnˈdɛv.ɚ/ verb C2- To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously. · She was endeavoring to teach us the elements of a good prose style.
- To work with purpose.
He/she/it endeavors · Past endeavored · Past participle endeavored · -ing form endeavoring
Verb forms
- Base form
- endeavor
- He/she/it
- endeavors
- Past
- endeavored
- Past participle
- endeavored
- -ing form
- endeavoring
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“Then all he has got to do is to endeavor to repair it.”
Come, now, I have hopes of obtaining what I have been for years endeavoring to persuade the marquise to promise; namely, a perfect amnesty and forgetfulness of the past.”
“But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavor to conceal it, he must find it out.”
de Villefort, whom I shall endeavor to interest in Edmond’s favor.
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