Influence
Influence verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.
Usage example: the news reports of the devastating flood influenced a great many people to make contributions for food and supplies
Try and influence are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Try" instead a verb "Influence".
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
How words are described
| good | good influence | good try |
| single | single influence | single try |
| obvious | obvious influence | obvious try |
| actual | actual influence | actual try |
| Other adjectives: real, big, great, huge, new, major, possible, less. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Secret Project Refugee Family: The Lost Family, who fell into the hands of an InNetwork Physician, escaped, and now work with groups around the country to fight their influence and try to rescue people trapped in the lower Chessboards.
Source: Tabletop Game / JAGS Wonderland - Later, Griff uses his influence with the Tresum Council to try to get Grace to submit to him similarly, but she outwits him.
Source: Sex Slave - They lay down their weapons and try to talk to the enemies... who promptly kill them all, being under the influence of similar drugs and seeing our protagonists as monsters.
Source: Cruel Twist Ending
Cite this Source
Try and Influence. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/influence/try
Influence & Try. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/influence/try>.
Try or Influence. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/influence/try.
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