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To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt. To endeavor one's self, to exert one's self strenuously to the fulfillment of a duty.
Origin: OE. Endevor; pref. En- + dever, devoir, duty, F. Devoir: cf. F. Se mettre en devoir de faire quelque chose to try to do a thing, to go about it. See Devoir, Debt
Alternative forms: endeavour.
An exertion of physical or intellectual strength toward the attainment of an object; a systematic or continuous attempt; an effort; a trial.
Synonyms: Essay, trial, effort, exertion. See Attempt.
(01 Mar 1998)
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