tried
English edit
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- tryed (obsolete)
Etymology edit
From Middle English tried, tryed, equivalent to try + -ed.
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tried (comparative more tried, superlative most tried)
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tried
- simple past and past participle of try
- 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:
- The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
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