endeavour
/ɪnˈdɛv.ɚ/ verb C2- British standard spelling of endeavor.
He/she/it endeavours · Past endeavoured · Past participle endeavoured · -ing form endeavouring
Verb forms
- Base form
- endeavour
- He/she/it
- endeavours
- Past
- endeavoured
- Past participle
- endeavoured
- -ing form
- endeavouring
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She had therefore taken her to the bedroom, and endeavoured to soothe her.
The reader may set me down as a hopeless busybody, when I confess how much this man stimulated my curiosity, and how often I endeavoured to break through the reticence which he showed on all that concerned himself.
Under these circumstances, I eagerly hailed the little mystery which hung around my companion, and spent much of my time in endeavouring to unravel it.
I pondered over our short conversation, however, and endeavoured to draw my deductions from it.
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