Check
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
Check is a synonym for try in process topic. Sometimes you can use "Check" instead the word "Try" as a verb or a noun, if it concerns topics such as investigate, experiment.
How words are described
| good | good check | good try |
| special | special check | special try |
| usual | usual check | usual try |
| proper | proper check | proper try |
| Other adjectives: single, deep, small, entire, real, big, huge, final, last. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- In those cases you can fail the check and try again after boosting that skill and the person doesn't even seem to find it odd that you were less eloquent before reading a magazine and putting on leopard-print nightwear.
Source: NPC Amnesia -
The cops, while not entirely believing of Darry's story, do send a team out to the old church to check it out, and the Poho police at the end try their hardest to try and take the Creeper down.
Source: Film / Jeepers Creepers - Similarly, whenever the DM makes a hidden roll or asks for a spot or listen check (that they fail), the players will assume something is going on and, if they're bad metagamers, try to act on it.
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Try and Check. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/check/try
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