tested and proved useful or correct; " a tested method"

tested and proved to be reliable

imp. & amp; p. p. of Try.

Proved; tested; faithful; trustworthy; as, a tried friend.

imp. & p. p. of Try.

Of the verb try.

Proved; tested; trustworthy.

See try.

At the last, she tried to get home- to me. – The Case of Richard Meynell by Mrs. Humphrey Ward

All these years I've tried to forget ... – Secret Bread by F. Tennyson Jesse

No man can; no man who has at all tried it can. – Bunyan Characters First Series by Alexander Whyte

I tried to love her.... – An Alabaster Box by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley

I tried to look at it from every side. – Romance by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer

Has any one ever tried to find it? – The Border Boys Across the Frontier by Fremont B. Deering

You haven't tried me." – Secret Bread by F. Tennyson Jesse

I tried- that is all- I tried. – Darrel of the Blessed Isles by Irving Bacheller

He tried very hard to get out, but could not. – McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

I tried hard to keep it from you. – A Prairie Infanta by Eva Wilder Brodhead

She tried to go on again. – Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins

Had he tried to make Klaartje love him in return? – Dreamers of the Ghetto by I. Zangwill

I tried this way and that way and the other way. – The House of Souls by Arthur Machen

Have you tried at her house? – King--of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy

He tried to think when he had seen it last. – Six Feet Four by Jackson Gregory

I tried to make out whether I had ever seen him before, but could not. – Cord and Creese by James de Mille

No. I've tried, of course. – The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Had she tried enough, done enough? – The Shadow of the East by E. M. Hull

I saw you and Bart on the raft, and I tried to make the men see you. – Frank Merriwell's Reward by Burt L. Standish

Don't you think you might look me in the face if you tried very hard? – The Way of an Eagle by Ethel M. Dell