Usually means: Effort to achieve a goal.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word attempt:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. attempt: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. attempt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. attempt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. attempt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. attempt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Attempt, attempt: Wordnik
  7. attempt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. attempt: Wiktionary
  9. attempt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. attempt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. attempt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. attempt: Dictionary.com
  13. attempt (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. attempt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Attempt (crime), Attempt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Attempt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. attempt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. attempt: Rhymezone
  19. attempt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. attempt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. attempt: Free Dictionary
  22. attempt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. attempt: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. attempt: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. attempt: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. attempt: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. attempt: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. attempt: Legal dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. attempt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Squash Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See attemptable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To try.
verb:  (obsolete) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
verb:  (archaic) To try to win, subdue, or overcome.
verb:  (archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.
noun:  The action of trying at something.
noun:  An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt.

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