"try someone's patience" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: tries someone's patience [present, singular, third-person], trying someone's patience [participle, present], tried someone's patience [participle, past], tried someone's patience [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} try someone's patience (third-person singular simple present tries someone's patience, present participle trying someone's patience, simple past and past participle tried someone's patience)
  1. Synonym of test someone's patience. Synonyms: test someone's patience [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-try_someone's_patience-en-verb-BSlsIdtg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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