"try titles" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "tries titles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trying titles",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tried titles",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tried titles",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1839, Benjamin Eggleston, The Wars of America (Hazard & Bloomer), page 450",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1914 August 15, “Why The Governor Is Not In”, in Nashua Telegraph, http://nashua.advantage-preservation.com/Viewer/DownloadPDFFile?PubDateId=13692491 page 4:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To battle."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "battle",
          "battle#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) To battle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    },
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 77",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
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          "_dis": "6 94",
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        {
          "_dis": "5 95",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Law",
          "orig": "en:Law",
          "parents": [
            "Justice",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 82",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Violence",
          "orig": "en:Violence",
          "parents": [
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To litigate a claim to property (most often real estate) or a public office."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "litigate",
          "litigate"
        ],
        [
          "real estate",
          "real estate"
        ]
      ]
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  "word": "try titles"
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    "English predicates",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trying titles",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tried titles",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tried titles",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English terms with quotations"
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        {
          "ref": "1839, Benjamin Eggleston, The Wars of America (Hazard & Bloomer), page 450",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1914 August 15, “Why The Governor Is Not In”, in Nashua Telegraph, http://nashua.advantage-preservation.com/Viewer/DownloadPDFFile?PubDateId=13692491 page 4:",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To battle."
      ],
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          "battle",
          "battle#Verb"
        ]
      ],
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        "(dated) To battle."
      ],
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        "dated"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To litigate a claim to property (most often real estate) or a public office."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "litigate",
          "litigate"
        ],
        [
          "real estate",
          "real estate"
        ]
      ]
    }
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