Definition of "tried" []

• Past tense and past participle of try. (verb)
• Thoroughly tested and proved to be good or trustworthy. (adjective)
• Made to undergo trials or distress. Often used in combination: a much-tried teacher. (adjective)

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• "There's a little Italian man who comes into our store everyday who insists on correcting my pronounciation, and I've tried, like seriously *tried*, but old habits just die hard!"
• "We looked and looked, and I tried on lots of jeans, and modeled and tried and modeled and tried…"
• "The charges against you were so serious that we couldn't get them dropped, and we tried, man, we _tried_."