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UK
/ʌntɹˈaɪd/
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[ US /ənˈtɹaɪd/ ]
[ US /ənˈtɹaɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not yet proved or subjected to testing
an untested drug
an untried procedure
untested theory -
not tried or tested by experience
still untested in battle
a young hand at plowing
an illustrator untried in mural painting
unseasoned artillery volunteers
How To Use untried In A Sentence
- I did not leave untried," says he, "whether, by assuming a horizontal refraction according to the density of the medium, the rest would correspond to the sines of the distances from a vertical direction, but calculation proved that it was not so: and, indeed, there was no occasion to have tried it, for thus the _refraction would increase according to the same law in all mediums, which is contradicted by experiment_. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler
- He was an untried prime minister in 1999 when, in response to a wave of apartment bombings that carved through Moscow, he sent troops into the province.
- We get the wine we deserve if we continue to support wineries that demand high prices for untried products.
- This strain of conservatism prefers stability to change, continuity to experiment, and the tried to the untried.
- An untried prisoner shall be allowed to wear his own clothing if it is clean and suitable.
- Now a staple part of astronaut preparation, it was new and untried back then. Times, Sunday Times
- This is a new and relatively untried procedure.
- And as the first machine to use the new, ARM-based Palm OS, the T contained a lot of untried, unproven technology.
- “Silence, Campo-Basso,” said the Duke, “and be assured you serve a prince. who knows your worth too well to exchange it for the untried and untrustful services of those, whom we have only known as vexatious and malignant neighbors.” Anne of Geierstein
- This is the culmination of a punitive regime which has gone on for 10 months under which, although untried and unconvicted, he is not allowed to sleep or exercise in his cell during the day, is denied any personal possessions and is barred from conversing with the guards. Bradley Manning: Cruel and unusual | Editorial