to make an attempt against
1attempt — I n. 1) to make an attempt 2) to foil, thwart an attempt 3) an abortive, fruitless, futile, vain; all out, concerted, last ditch; bold, brazen, daring; crude; deliberate; feeble, halfhearted, weak; first; premature; successful attempt; repeated… …
2Make That Spare — Format Game show Presented by Johnny Johnston (1960 1961, 1962 1964) Win Elliot (1961 1962) Chris Schenkel Nelson Burton Jr. (1988) Country of origin …
3attempt — I. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French & Latin; Anglo French attempter, from Latin attemptare, from ad + temptare to touch, try more at tempt Date: 14th century 1. to make an effort to do, accomplish, solve, or effect <… …
4attempt — attemptability, n. attemptable, adj. attempter, n. /euh tempt /, v.t. 1. to make an effort at; try; undertake; seek: to attempt an impossible task; to attempt to walk six miles. 2. Archaic. to attack; move against in a hostile manner: to attempt… …
5attempt — at•tempt [[t]əˈtɛmpt[/t]] v. t. 1) to make an effort at; try; undertake: to attempt a difficult task[/ex] 2) archaic to attack; move against in a hostile manner: to attempt a person s life[/ex] 3) archaic to tempt 4) an effort made to accomplish… …
61981 Pope John Paul II assassination attempt — An attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II occurred on May 13, 1981. Mehmet Ali Ağca shot and seriously wounded the Pope in the Vatican City s St. Peter s Square. Ağca was convicted for this crime in July 1981, and was deported to Turkey in… …
71960 South Vietnamese coup attempt — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt caption=President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam partof= date=November 11, 1960 place=Saigon, South Vietnam result=Coup attempt crushed combatant1= Army of the Republic of… …
8Emperor Taizong's campaign against Eastern Tujue — Emperor Taizong of Tang (r. 626 649), the second emperor of Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, faced a major threat from Tang s northern neighbor, the Eastern Tujue (Göktürk) Khanate, whom his father Emperor Gaozu of Tang had been subjugated by in… …
92002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt — The Venezuelan coup attempt of 2002 was a failed coup d état on April 11, 2002 that lasted only 47 hours, whereby the head of state President Hugo Chávez was illegally detained, the National Assembly and the Supreme Court dissolved, and the… …
102010 Times Square car bombing attempt — Further information: Islamic Extremism in the United States Coordinates: 40°45′29″N 73°59′09″W / 40.758056°N 73.985768°W …
