Try and Want

Try

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

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

Nearby Words: tried, trying

Want verb - To have an earnest wish to own or enjoy.

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Try and want are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Try" instead a verb "Want".

Nearby Words: wanting, wanted

old	old try	old want
good	good try	good want
special	special try	special want
best	best try	best want
Other adjectives: complete, total, actual, real, big, great, horrible, decent, new, possible, former, last.

power	try power	want power
life	try life	want life
people	try people	want people
kind	try kind	want kind
Other words: best, time, way, money, nothing, song.

Scary Black Man: Oluwakim Screw Destiny: Interestingly, even if some characters, like Zmeya, claim You Can't Fight Fate, the book as a whole seems to teach us that if you really want and try hard enough you may find your own path to follow.

Source: Literature / The Orphan's Tales
When the others try to tell him to enjoy being single, as soon as he says, "I don't want to be single, I want to be married," Rachel barges into the coffee shop, wearing a wedding dress.

Source: Inadvertent Entrance Cue
Better do not try to rise a slave revolt in ancient Rome or try to install a democracy in medieval Germany, it will just lead to more trouble then you want to and lead to your death most likely.

Source: Just For Fun / The Universal Genre Savvy Guide

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