Associations to the word «Attempted»

Wiktionary

ATTEMPTED, adjective. Tried, with the connotation of failure.
ATTEMPTED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of attempt
ATTEMPTED RAPE, noun. (legal) A crime in which rape was the motive for an assault, although no rape was carried out.
ATTEMPTED RAPES, noun. Plural of attempted rape

Dictionary definition

ATTEMPTED, adjective. Tried unsuccessfully; "attempted murder".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope