To frustrate or annoy one by continued unwanted behavior; to test the limits of one's patience. His tangential questions are clearly trying the professor's patience, who asked that all questions be held until the end of the lecture.Will you take the kids to the playground for an hour? They're really trying my patience.
to strain someone's patience; to bother someone as if testing the person's patience. (Try means test here.) My loud neighbors are trying my patience today. You really try my patience with all your questions!
*** Gulliver's Travels 3D (PG) A resolutely unfunny Jack Black continues to try patience, grandstanding in update of the classic tale as he's shipwrecked on an island of tiny people and learns that it's how big your heart is that counts.
Off to Somerset Park is a pack of playing cards so manager GORDON DALZIEL can try patience. After all, he's been trying mine for long enough - give us a trophy, please, Daz.
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