Engage and Try

Engage

Engage verb - To hold the attention of.

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

Nearby Words: engagement, engaging, engagingly

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

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

Nearby Words: tried, trying

man	engage man	try man
kind	engage kind	try kind
number	engage number	try number
time	engage time	try time
Other words: way, player, times, powers, heroes.

The entire setup of The Ball and the Cross is that an old-fashioned Catholic and militant atheist flee from the police across the English countryside to try and engage in an (illegal) duel to the death, but are thwarted at every turn in increasingly hilarious and bizarre ways.

Source: Duel to the Death
Unlike some other games, though, it doesn't do anything to make you do the same, so there's nothing stopping you from simply shooting enemies that try to engage you up close.

Source: Video Game / Ride to Hell: Retribution
The game's AI will try to get the "sword" to engage you in melee while the "sorcerer" uses his force abilities from afar.

Source: Sword and Sorcerer

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