endeavored
UK spellingendeavoured
- 1Simple past and past participle of endeavor.
The committee endeavored to resolve the dispute without resorting to legal action.
Throughout her long career, she had endeavored to mentor younger colleagues at every opportunity.
Note
One regular -ed form does two jobs: standing alone it is the simple past, and after have it is the past participle of the perfect. Either way it is nearly always followed by to and a verb: endeavored to explain, had endeavored to help. A direct object instead (endeavored a reform) belongs to an obsolete use, so modern prose keeps the infinitive. The spelling is the American one.
endeavored is a form of endeavor
endeavor, verb: To make a strenuous attempt to do something, applying real effort toward accomplishing it. Full entry
- Forms
- endeavorendeavors he/she/itendeavoring -ing formendeavored past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- endeavor → endeavored: add -ed
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