essayed
past simple and past participle ofessay
essay
verb[T]
old-fashioneduk/eˈseɪ/us/eˈseɪ/totryto do something:
Theprocedurewas first essayed in 1923.
Trying and making an effort
- A game
- all-out
- assault
- attempt
- attempted
- bid
- crack
- go for itidiom
- go forsomeone
- go out ofyourwayidiom
- go the extra mileidiom
- go to great lengthsidiom
- push
- seek
- shoot
- step on the gasidiom
- stick atsomething
- stick tosomething
- strain after/for effectidiom
- strain every nerveidiom
Examplesofessayed
essayed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Descartesessayedtwo responses, both of them based on a mechanistic account of visual stimulation.
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Reading conventional historical sources, chronicles, and pamphlets, alongside play texts, theyessayedan interdisciplinary study of spectacles - on the stages of the theatre, the city, and the nation.
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Martineauessayedto make the factory system itself a source of sweetness and light, a mass-producer of individuality, humanity, and morality and the means by which workers could culture themselves.
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It is perhaps the biggest task that we have everessayedin our history.
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I would not pay much attention to him on these matters, after what he hasessayedto publish.
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Were any changeessayed, it would affect many other questions.
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In the course of our proceedings upstairs heessayedto embroil me in this somewhat embarrassing controversy surrounding the position of certain colliery managers in my constituency.
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The squadronessayedfurther action on the enemy forces after nightfall and achieved considerable success; indeed, it returned to base with sixty prisoners of war.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.No circus ever furnished a better show in its mule-riding department than we enjoyed when those two hundred infantrymenessayedtheir first mount.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The cast remained the same in every episode, although they played different characters as each episodeessayeda different story.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.During this period, heessayeddifferent kinds of roles.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Anjaliessayedthe role of a bold and dominating nurse, with critics again heaping praise on her performance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In this film, heessayeda double role, one as a thief and the other as a police officer.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Later heessayedthe role of a villain in many films of the 60s, 70s and 80s.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In this heroine-centric film, sheessayedtwo roles for the first time.
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- the ground floor
- the-ground-floor
- the Group of Fifteen
- the Group of Five
- the Group of Ten
- the Group of Twenty
- the groves of academe
- the-groves-of-academe
- the gulag
- the-gulag
- the Gulf of Mexico
- the Gulf states
- the Gulf Stream
- the-gulf-stream
- the gutter press
- the-gutter-press
- the Haber process
- the-haber-process
- The Hague
- the Hague Rules
- the hairdryer treatment
- the-hairdryer-treatment
- the hair of the dog (that bit you)
- the-hair-of-the-dog-that-bit-you
- the Hand of God