Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| good | good try | good worry |
| safe | safe try | safe worry |
| common | common try | common worry |
| single | single try | single worry |
| Other adjectives: deep, obvious, actual, real, big, great, major, general, less, biological. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Eventually the trope becomes "Gene gets stranded/lost/goes off to get the juices flowing and find himself and the others worry/try to rescue him".
Source: Literature / Castle Perilous -
People on the chairlift would try to spit on the riders of the alpine slide below, as though the latter didn't have enough problems to worry about.
Source: Ride / Action Park - If you can't afford Keitel to play an Italian-American tough guy (even though he isn't actually Italian-American) don't worry, you still can try with Dennis Farina, Joe Mantegna and Frank Vincent.
Source: Poor Man's Substitute
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Worry and Try. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/try/worry
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