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# endeavor

verb (endeavor, endeavors, endeavored, endeavoring); noun (an endeavor)

«endeavor» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To endeavor is to try hard to do something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endeavor/#m1)
2. An endeavor is a hard task or effort that someone tries to do. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endeavor/#m2)

### In the lessons

to try hard or work hard at a task, in the tales, to find a lost person or a way home

### Examples

- I will endeavor to find her. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endeavor/#x1)
- He gave himself a slap, endeavoring to destroy the fly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endeavor/#x2)
- You must endeavor to find your way home. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endeavor/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

to try hard or work hard at a task, in the tales, to find a lost person or a way home

### Examples

- He endeavors to show how the ideal became, after numerous emanations, more condensed, palpable and concrete. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/endeavor/#x1)
- Our author endeavors to show the gradual emanation of all things from God, which were completely finished in ten spheres. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/endeavor/#x2)
- Our author is therefore endeavoring to show that the whole universe emanated gradually from the spirit of the one living God. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/endeavor/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «endeavor» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endeavor/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«endeavor» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/endeavor.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «endeavor» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/endeavor/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«endeavor» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/endeavor.html) on Mova free.