Definitions
Difficult to deal with; also making an effort.
Word origin
From try + -ing.
Used in a sentence
“"Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?"”
“Tryin’ times, what the world is talkin’ about / You got confusion all over the land, yeah”
“When I write with others, the pauses and manyfold attempts to get at an idea mirror the cadence of a conversation or the tryings of finding a word that evades the tongue. That searching is such a beautiful thing.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“stressfully difficult”6 letters
02“Making an effort”6 letters
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