Definitions for tried
traɪdtried

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. tested, tried, well-triedadjective

   tested and proved useful or correct

   "a tested method"

2. tested, time-tested, tried, tried and trueadjective

   tested and proved to be reliable

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Tried

   imp. & p. p. of Try

2. Tried

   proved; tested; faithful; trustworthy; as, a tried friend

3. tried

   of Try

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Tried

   See Try.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'tried' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #656

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'tried' in Written Corpus Frequency: #777

Anagrams for tried »

1. tired

2. drite

3. diter

How to pronounce tried?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say tried in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tried in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tried in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of tried in a Sentence

1. Kevin Cramer:

   I think China will be at the table of settling fairly shortly after the election, to be honest with you. In the meantime, they're going to try to use political pressure where they can. Yes, it's a real hurt. What I've tried to impress upon The President many times is that short-term pain for a farmer can be the end of his career, depending again on his personal circumstances.

2. Dan Skrypczak:

   A number of them tried to get out.

3. Defense Secretary James Mattis:

   ( Putin) tried again to muck around in our elections this last month, and we are seeing a continued effort along those lines.

4. Marc Reed:

   We’ve tried to work with union leaders to reach a deal.

5. Anthony Sadler:

   I woke up to basically people ducking and then I was, like,' Why is everybody ducking ?' and then, when I turned round to look, he, the gunman, had just entered the car with the AK and then I was, like :' This is really happening', we just all ran back there and we tried to do whatever we could to try and beat him up so he didn't shoot anybody. He pulled out a box cutter and cut Spencer a couple of times but beside that we just tried to do whatever we could.

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