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try titles

try titles verb: to battle.

Verb

try titles (third-person singular simple present tries titles, present participle trying titles, simple past and past participle tried titles)

  1. (dated) To battle.
    • Gen. Greene, having received all the reinforcements he expected, instantly prepared to try titles for victory, with his lordship, at the point of a bayonet.1839, Benjamin Eggleston, The Wars of America (Hazard & Bloomer), page 450
    • If it could have been made to appear that his only motive was to save the Democratic party from the Hollis and Stevens radicalism, he might have been persuaded to try titles with these gentlemen.1914 August 15, “Why The Governor Is Not In”, in Nashua Telegraph, http://nashua.advantage-preservation.com/Viewer/DownloadPDFFile?PubDateId=13692491 page 4
  2. To litigate a claim to property (most often real estate) or a public office.

Forms of try titles

third-person singular presenttries titles
present participletrying titles
past participletried titles
pasttried titles

Questions about try titles

What does try titles mean?
Try titles means to battle.
What part of speech is try titles?
Try titles is a verb.
What is the past tense of try titles?
The past tense of try titles is tried titles.

Words near try titles in the dictionary

  1. try pots
  2. try someone's patience
  3. try square
  4. try squares
  5. try the veal
  6. try titles
  7. try work
  8. try works
  9. try'n'a
  10. try'na
  11. try-babies

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