endeavor
substantivoverboatestado nos diálogos
- Reino Unido//ɪnˈdɛv.ə//
- Estados Unidos//ɛnˈdɛv.ɚ//
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A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity.
substantivo
- 1
A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity.
Etimologia
The verb is from Middle English endeveren (“to make an effort”); the noun is from Middle English endevour, from the verb. Endeveren is from (putten) in dever (“(to put oneself) in duty”), from in + dever (“duty”), partially translating Middle French (se mettre) en devoir (de faire) (“(to make it) one's duty (to do), to endeavour (to do)”) (from Old French devoir, deveir (“duty”)).
verbo
- 1
obsoletoTo exert oneself.
- 2
To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.
- 3
obsoletoTo attempt (something).
- 4
To work with purpose.
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
Formas
- plural
- endeavors
- pretérito
- endeavored
- particípio passado
- endeavored
- gerúndio
- endeavoring
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- endeavors
endeavor · A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity.
ended · Having (a specified kind or number of) ends.ending · A termination or conclusion.endless · Having no end.