TO TRY ON

Definition: TO TRY ON

TO TRY ON

1. (a) To put on, as a garment, to ascertain whether it fits the person. (b) To attempt; to undertake. [Slang] --Dickens. Syn: To attempt; endeavor; strive; aim; examine. Usage: Try , Attempt . To try is the generic, to attempt is the specific, term. When we try, we are usually uncertain as to success; when we attempt, we have always some definite object in view which we seek to accomplish. We may be indifferent as to the result of a trial, but we rarely attempt anything without a desire to succeed. He first deceased: she for a little tried To live without him; liked it not, and died. --Sir H. Wotton. Alack, I am afraid they have a waked, And 't is not done. The attempt, and not the deed, Confounds us. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

They got some new drugs they want to try on me to see if they can cure my bulmarexia. (The Best Little Girl in the World; writing credit: David Moessinger)

When you're gone I like to try on all your clothes (In Your Room; performing artist: The Bangles)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Asturian

probar. (various references)

Aymara

yant'asiña. (various references)

Bemba

ukwesha mo. (various references)

Cebuano

magsukod. (various references)

Chamorro

para ma chagi umusa. (various references)

Faeroese

at passa. (various references)

Frisian

oanprobearje. (various references)

German

anprobieren (fit on, have a fitting, to fit, try on). (various references)

Hungarian

felpróbál (fit on, to fit on, try on). (various references)

Inuktitut

atingualuni. (various references)

Italian

provare (argue, attempt, demonstrate, essay, experience, feel, find, fit, prove, rehearse, show, taste, test, to try, try). (various references)

Kongo

ku-bika. (various references)

Macedonian

oblekuvanje. (various references)

Pig Latin

otay ytray onay

Provencal

passar per ensajar. (various references)

Ruanda

gupima. (various references)

Spanish

probarme. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: rooty, torot, toyon.

-3 letters: onto, otto, root, roto, ryot, tony, toon, toot, torn, toro, tort, tory, toyo, trot, troy, tyro.

-4 letters: noo, nor, not, oot, ort, rot, ton, too, tor, tot, toy, try, yon.

-5 letters: no, on, or, oy, to, yo.

+2 letters: notoriety, tonometry.

+3 letters: noteworthy, orotundity.

+4 letters: enterostomy, monstrosity, negotiatory, opportunity, protonotary, prototyping, thyrotropin.

+5 letters: contributory, ethnohistory, extortionary, introductory, noteworthily, portentously, prothonotary, thyrotrophin, thyrotropins, trigonometry.

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