Give and Try

Give

Give verb - To make a present of.

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

Nearby Words: giving, given, giver

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

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

Nearby Words: tried, trying

old	old give	old try
good	good give	good try
nice	nice give	nice try
short	short give	short try
Other adjectives: total, obvious, big, huge, major, former, less, incomprehensible.

sense	give sense	try sense
power	give power	try power
life	give life	try life
job	give job	try job
Other words: name, control, chance, hand, advantage, time, way, money, food, option, powers.

Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Prior to its Series 5 battle against Spawn Again, the team captain of Evolution put a brick inside the robot's rotating turret weapon, to try and give it some extra force.

Source: Series / Robot Wars
Many recent sets have introduced multiple filler ninjas in order to try and give the decks more variety in what ninjas they can play.

Source: CCG Importance Dissonance
The Germ of the Week on one episode of Ozzy and Drix kidnapped fat cells to Hector's heart to try and give him a heart attack.

Source: A Weighty Aesop

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