attempt
at·tempt / əˈtem(p)t/ • v. [tr.] make an effort to achieve or complete (something, typically a difficult task or action): she attempted a comeback in 1989 those who attempted to flee were captured at the border. ∎ try to climb to the top of (a mountain): the group's next plan was to attempt Everest.• n. an act of trying to achieve something, typically one that is unsuccessful or not certain to succeed: any attempt at talking politics ended in a fit of laughter. ∎ an effort to surpass a record or conquer a mountain: we made an attempt on the southwest buttress. ∎ a bid to kill someone: Karakozov made an attempt on the tsar’s life. ∎ a thing produced as a result of trying to make or achieve something: her first attempt at a letter ended up in the wastebasket.