verb
- Have confidence or faith in.
- usage: "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"
- Allow without fear.
- synonyms: trust
- Be confident about something.
- usage: "I believe that he will come back from the war"
- Expect and wish.
- usage: "I trust you will behave better from now on"; "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise"
- Confer a trust upon.
- usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
- Extend credit to.
- usage: "don't trust my ex-wife; I won't pay her debts anymore"
- synonyms: trust
adjective
- Inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust."great brown eye, true and trustful- Nordhoff & Hall
- synonyms: trustful
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