TRY FOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does try for mean? 

• TRY FOR (verb)
  The verb TRY FOR has 1 sense:

1. make an attempt at achieving something

  Familiarity information: TRY FOR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRY FOR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make an attempt at achieving something

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

go for; try for

Context example:

She tried for the Olympics

Hypernyms (to "try for" is one way to...):

compete; contend; vie (compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible; or at least it was impossible not to try for information.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It was easier to try for your sakes than for my own.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There’s also an indication that if you hope for a baby of your own that you might try for pregnancy after the new moon of January 24.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Were I refused, I must bear it; and till I am, I can never cease to try for her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And there can be no reason why you should not try for him.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Well, said the father, we will try for once.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Now you have nothing to try for.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I am to be trusted, for the first time in a long while, with my miserable life, on account of what you have given me to try for.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The brow of the hill, where they remained, was a cheerful spot: Louisa returned; and Mary, finding a comfortable seat for herself on the step of a stile, was very well satisfied so long as the others all stood about her; but when Louisa drew Captain Wentworth away, to try for a gleaning of nuts in an adjoining hedge-row, and they were gone by degrees quite out of sight and sound, Mary was happy no longer; she quarrelled with her own seat, was sure Louisa had got a much better somewhere, and nothing could prevent her from going to look for a better also.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Alternatively, it’s possible you will want to start a family of your own and try for a baby, or perhaps you’ll help a relative who has a newborn and needs you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)