Ride and Try

Ride

Ride verb - To attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults.
Usage example: that supervisor is always riding everyone for every little thing

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

Nearby Words: rider, riding, ridable

Try

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

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

Nearby Words: tried, trying

How words are described

old old ride old try
good good ride good try
nice nice ride nice try
best best ride best try
Other adjectives: normal, short, complete, single, small, actual, entire, big, great, living, new, former, final, last.

Common collocations

time ride time try time
way ride way try way
times ride times try times

Both words in one sentence

  • The bad ones are nothing more than cheap attempts to try and ride the coat-tails of another author, and are quickly derided as such by reviewers.
  • Total Party Kill The Wild Bunch almost begins with one as most of the bandits are killed when they try to rob a bank and instead ride right into a trap.
  • Ride / Disney Theme Parks Title Drop: Every ride will somehow try to work this in.
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