What is the meaning of trusting?

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.
  • 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"

adjective

  • Inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust."great brown eye, true and trustful- Nordhoff & Hall
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