gave it one's best shot (verb) struggle: labor, work
Sinonime: absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, bemused,
bewildered, distrait, dreamy, engrossed, entranced, faraway,
feeble, going in circles,
ignorant, inconscient,
musing,
perplexed, preoccupied,
rapt, spellbound, taken in, taken up, unconscious,
wastedAntonime: attentive, aware,
cognizant