Crossword-Solution: ESSAYED 7 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Essayed imp. & p. p. of Essay

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ESSAYED anagram SADEYES

We have 17 clues for the answer “ESSAYED”

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Made an attempt at 1 answer
Made a stab at 1 answer
Made a good try 1 answer
Gave it a try 1 answer
Gave a try 1 answer
Took a crack at 2 answers
Gave it a shot 2 answers
Tried out 3 answers
Gave it the old college try? 3 answers
Made an Attempt 4 answers
Made an effort 5 answers
Ventured 6 answers
Took a stab at 7 answers
Endeavored 8 answers
Attempted 9 answers
Put to the test 11 answers
Tried 17 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ESSAYED (5)

Then they all knew who ’twas that had been undoing them in the cabin, and twice Hook essayed to speak and twice he failed.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Steadying herself by the help of one crutch, she essayed a step, then another, then a third, using the crutches now as walking sticks only.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Perturbed in soul, I straight essayed the sacrifice by fire On blazing altars, but the God of Fire Came not in flame, and from the thigh bones dripped And sputtered in the ashes a foul ooze; Gall-bladders cracked and spurted up: the fat Melted and fell and left the thigh bones bare.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
Wilson, not a little astonished at this outbreak—for he was a grandfatherly sort of personage, and usually a vast favourite with children—essayed, however, to proceed with the examination.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
But because I have essayed to expound the chief of these discoveries in a treatise which certain considerations prevent me from publishing, I cannot make the results known more conveniently than by here giving a summary of the contents of this treatise.
A Discourse on Method René Descartes 1995

Quotes with ESSAYED (3)

She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world:"And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you." She essayed to smile again and expired.
Victor Hugo Les Miserables
The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.
Herman Melville Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred. No beast can match its range and power.
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 50 times in crossword archives (1970–2023).