effort
/ˈɛf.ɚt/ noun A2- The work involved in performing an activity; exertion. · make an effort· take a lot of effort
- An endeavor. · Although he didn't win any medals, Johnson's effort at the Olympics won over many fans.
- A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
Plural efforts
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Cavalcanti looked at Danglars with a stupefied air, and the latter, making an effort, arose and stepped between the two young men.
But when the Wolf, day after day, kept in the company of the sheep and did not make the slightest effort to seize them, the Shepherd began to look upon him as a guardian of his flock rather than as a plotter of evil against it; and when occasion called him one day into the city, he left the sheep entirely in his charge.
Every effort should be made to find the secretary, Stangerson, and to ascertain some particulars of the habits of the deceased.
“Well, if a man can stride four and a-half feet without the smallest effort, he can’t be quite in the sere and yellow.
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