trial
Definition of trial:
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part of speech: noun
A trying: the act of trying: examination by a test: the state of being tried: suffering: temptation: judicial examination: attempt.
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part of speech: noun
Any effort or exercise to ascertain what can be done; an attempt; an endeavour; examination by test or experiment; experience; any suffering or temptation that puts strength or virtue to the test; affiction; the formal examination before a judge by means of witnesses in a court of law, as to whether certain alleged facts or charges are true or untrue.
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Common misspellings:
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- tral (12.2%)
- trile (5.4%)
- triial (2.7%)
- tria (8.1%)
- trian (1.4%)
- tiral (17.6%)
- tial (8.1%)
- tril (10.8%)
- trila (6.8%)
- triel (18.9%)
- trialed (5.4%)
- tryil (2.7%)
Usage examples for trial:
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This was the day of the trial
"The City of Fire" – Grace Livingston Hill -
" Caillaud's trial is to take place next week," he observed after a long pause.
"The Revolution in Tanner's Lane" – Mark Rutherford -
Name the trial you Would have me make.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader" – William Holmes McGuffey