overtry
English
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To spend too much time or resources in trying (a legal case).
Etymology
Prefix from English try (extract oil from whale blubber).
Origin
English
try
Gloss
extract oil from whale blubber
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mistry English
- retry English
- triable English
- tried English
- trier English
- triest English
- trieth English
- try English
- try pot English
- tryhard English
- trying English
- tryless English
- tryscorer English
- tryscoring English
- trysquare English
- trywork English
- トライ Japanese
- trien Middle English
- tray Malay
- טרײַען Yiddish
- traim Tok Pisin