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comparative more tried, superlative most tried
Tested, hence, proven to be firm or reliable. examples
(law) Put on trial, taken before a lawcourt. examples
simple past and past participle of try quotations examples
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.
1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919