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try·ing

(trī′ĭng)

adj.

Causing strain, hardship, or distress.

try′ing·ly adv.

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trying

(ˈtraɪɪŋ)

adj

upsetting, difficult, or annoying: a trying day at the office.

ˈtryingly adv

ˈtryingness n

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try•ing

(ˈtraɪ ɪŋ)

adj.

straining one's patience and goodwill; annoying, difficult, or irritating.

[1710–20]

try′ing•ly, adv.

try′ing•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	trying - hard to endure; "fell upon trying times" difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
	2.	trying - extremely irritating to the nerves; "nerve-racking noise"; "the stressful days before a war"; "a trying day at the office" nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, stressful disagreeable - not to your liking; "a disagreeable situation"

trying

adjective annoying, hard, taxing, difficult, tough, upsetting, irritating, fatiguing, stressful, aggravating (informal), troublesome, exasperating, arduous, tiresome, vexing, irksome, wearisome, bothersome The whole business has been very trying.
easy, simple, calming, straightforward, no trouble, painless, undemanding, no bother

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trying

adjective

Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength:

arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, exigent, formidable, hard, heavy, laborious, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, rough, severe, taxing, tough, weighty.

Translations

شاقمُتْعِب

otravnýúmorný

anstrengend

difícil; molesto latoso pesado

pénible

idegekre menõ

òreytandi, erfiîursem reynir á òolrifinn; òreytandi

cercante difficile

úmorný

bıktırıcıcan sıkıcısabır taşıranzor

难受的难对付的

trying

[ˈtraɪɪŋ] ADJ [time, situation, circumstances] → difícil; [experience, day] → duro; [person] → latoso, pesado

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trying

[ˈtraɪɪŋ] adj → pénibletry line tryline [ˈtraɪlaɪn] n (RUGBY) → ligne f de but, ligne f d'essai

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trying

adj → schwierig, anstrengend; work, day, time → anstrengend, aufreibend; experience → schwer; it has been a trying time for them recently → sie haben es in letzter Zeit sehr schwer gehabt; how trying! → wie ärgerlich!

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trying

[ˈtraɪɪŋ] adj (tiring, situation, time) → difficile, duro/a; (day, experience) → logorante, pesante; (tiresome, person) → noiso/a, seccante; (child) → insopportabile
to have a trying time → passare un periodo difficile

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try

(trai) verb

1. to attempt or make an effort (to do, get etc). He tried to answer the questions; Let's try and climb that tree!

2. to test; to make an experiment (with) in order to find out whether something will be successful, satisfactory etc. She tried washing her hair with a new shampoo; Try one of these sweets.

3. to judge (someone or their case) in a court of law. The prisoners were tried for murder.

4. to test the limits of; to strain. You are trying my patience.

noun – plural tries –

1. an attempt or effort. Have a try (at the exam). I'm sure you will pass.

2. in rugby football, an act of putting the ball on the ground behind the opponents' goal-line. Our team scored three tries.

ˈtrier noun

a person who keeps on trying, who does not give up. He's not very good, but he's a trier.

ˈtrying adjective

1. difficult; causing strain or anxiety. Having to stay such a long time in hospital must be very trying.

2. (of people) stretching one's patience to the limit; annoying. She's a very trying woman!

try on

to put on (clothes etc) to see if they fit. She tried on a new hat.

try out

to test (something) by using it. We are trying out new teaching methods.

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I did not give up trying to read, as usual, and part of my endeavor that winter was with Schiller, and Uhland, and even Goethe, whose 'Wahlverwandschaften,' hardly yielded up its mystery to me.

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I shall maybe do some mowing myself too," he said trying not to be embarrassed.

The grass became softer, and Levin, listening without answering, followed Tit, trying to do the best he could.

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Now if there is anything mortifying to out feelings when we are young, it is to be told that, and to be bidden to "run away, dear" is still more trying to us.

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He shrugged his shoulders, and threw it into her lap, trying to look cool and careless, but failing entirely, for he was ashamed of himself, and out of sorts generally.

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"There are so many I would like to make," said Cecily, "that I'm afraid it wouldn't be any use trying to keep them all."

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Here puss showed an amiable desire to forgive and forget, and Polly took her up, saying aloud: "Puttel, when missis abuses you, play it 's dyspepsia, and don't bear malice, because it 's a very trying disease, my dear."

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I see I was weakening; so I just give up trying, and up and says:

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Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question.

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The next day glided away, pleasantly enough, partly in settling myself in my new quarters, and partly in strolling round the neighbourhood, under Arthur's guidance, and trying to form a general idea of Elveston and its inhabitants.

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There was a "run on the bank," they told her then, but she did not know what that was, and turned from one person to another, trying in an agony of fear to make out what they meant.

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"Miss Jethro left me," he said, "with the intention--quite openly expressed--of trying to prevent you from accepting Mr.