endeavouring
present participle ofendeavour
单词 | endeavouring |
释义 | endeavouring present participle ofendeavour endeavour verb[I+ to infinitive] UK(USendeavor)uk/enˈdev.ər/us/enˈdev.ɚ/C1 totryto do something: Engineers are endeavouringtolocatethesourceof theproblem. Synonyms attempt strive to try to do something
Trying and making an effort
Examplesofendeavouringendeavouring In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It is an ambitious combinationendeavouringto reveal both the objective and subjective contexts of construction in a manner accessible to practitioners, teachers, and students. From theCambridge English Corpus In the third level, the co-ordinator and the facilitators validated the results byendeavouringto capture the momentum of the workshops in the final report. From theCambridge English Corpus Testing andendeavouringto transcend these comfortable polarities is essential if we are to reach a nuanced understanding. From theCambridge English Corpus The pull of value itself is infinite, but byendeavouringto pursue it infinitely one may well serve it less. From theCambridge English Corpus This indicates that long-time integration is difficult and this can be confirmed byendeavouringto solve (11.17) with any popular, general-purpose solver. From theCambridge English Corpus Some reforms can be seen asendeavouringto replace multilevel governance structures with principal-agent relationships, so that the government is more clearly in control. From theCambridge English Corpus Endeavouringto undertake this task clearly exceeds the modest goals of this squib. From theCambridge English Corpus We cannot escape the fact that we are heirs and prisoners of the past we areendeavouringto excavate, or avoid the long shadows it casts. From theCambridge English Corpus Inendeavouringto put that so-called chemistry into practice, my evidence would be that it has been singularly and almost totally unsuccessful. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Inendeavouringto be fair, we often leaned over backwards and hammered our own supporters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I amendeavouringto obtain information as to dates on which the principal consignments were received. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I amendeavouringto do a service to my fellow countrymen in asking them what they want. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I wasendeavouringto go back over the years to show why the giro system had not been introduced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, which is perhaps even more important, urge the textile trade forward in their work ofendeavouringto find a non-inflammable treatment for clothing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We areendeavouringto catch up with errors committed in past years when we allowed these fellows to get ahead of us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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