present participle of make an effort

simple past tense and past participle of make an effort

To try; to work towards a goal.

An anaerobic organism; one that does not require oxygen to sustain its metabolic processes.

To express as an analogy. / To treat one thing as analogous to another.

(transitive) To inspect or investigate by dissection. / (transitive) To scrutinize down to the most minute detail.

(transitive) To cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema or evil.

(medicine) The inability to feel pain. / (pharmacology) An analgesic (medication that acts to relieve pain).

(medicine) A branch of kinesiology that studies the configuration of limbs during the performance of a task.

plural of anatomist