Approve and Try

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Approve verb - To give official acceptance of as satisfactory.

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Try and approve are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Try" instead a verb "Approve".

Nearby Words: approval, approbation, approving, approvingly, approvement

Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.

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Approve and try are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Approve" instead a verb "Try".

Nearby Words: tried, trying

name	approve name	try name
relationship	approve relationship	try relationship
number	approve number	try number
time	approve time	try time
Other words: plan, characters, game, powers, whom.

Since Buffy doesn't approve of this, Dawn and Anya try to pretend the water came from Andrew drooling all over himself.

Source: Water Wake-up
And usually try to harm and/or dominate any would-be wielders they don't approve.

Source: Only the Chosen May Wield
In Umi no Misaki, Shizuku puts her all into being a proper cape maiden to try to get her mom - a previous cape maiden - to approve of her.

Source: "Well Done, Son!" Guy

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Try or Approve. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/approve/try.

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