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What is another word for endeavouring?

Pronunciation: [ɛndˈɛvɜːɹɪŋ] (IPA)

Endeavouring is a term that expresses a great effort or attempt to achieve something. However, there are several synonyms that can be used in place of the word endeavoring. One possible option is striving which means putting in a great deal of effort to achieve something. Another is attempting, which refers to making an effort to accomplish a set goal. One can also use the term trying or working hard, which both carry a similar meaning. Other synonyms include exerting oneself, laboring, and toiling. Regardless of the word, the sentiment remains the same - an intent effort to accomplish something despite obstacles or challenges.
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Usage examples for Endeavouring

I am simply endeavouring to show you how futile it would be in all probability to try to bring the crime home to the man whom we suspect.
"A Crime of the Under-seas"
Guy Boothby
Unconsciously he was endeavouring to convince himself, through the medium of a second person, of the wisdom contained in his marriage experiment.
"A Crime of the Under-seas"
Guy Boothby
Within a few seconds I was pausing at this door, and endeavouring to make an astonished parlour-maid understand that I wanted to see her master on a matter of life and death.
"A Queen's Error"
Henry Curties

Famous quotes with Endeavouring

  • All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.
    William Bligh
  • As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.
    Thomas Edward Brown
  • We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
    John Stuart Mill
  • For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.
    George Orwell
  • It is difficult to personate and act a part long, for where truth is not at the bottom Nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other.
    Tillotson

Related words: effort, endeavour, endeavor to, endeavouring to, striving

Quotation: "But we must go forwards either in hope or in fear. We shall know the dark ground which we tread upon. Let us endeavor to be strong."

-W.E. Henley

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