trust
/tɹʌst/ verb A2- To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in. · We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.
- To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.
- To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
- To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object) · I trust you have cleaned your room?
- to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
- To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
- To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment. · Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
- To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it). · to trust to luck· Having lost the book, he had to trust to his memory for further details.
Plural trust · He/she/it trusts · Past trusted · Past participle trusted · -ing form trusting
Verb forms
- Base form
- trust
- He/she/it
- trusts
- Past
- trusted
- Past participle
- trusted
- -ing form
- trusting
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Observe,” said Villefort, smiling, “I do not mean to deny that both these men were revolutionary scoundrels, and that the 9th Thermidor and the 4th of April, in the year 1814, were lucky days for France, worthy of being gratefully remembered by every friend to monarchy and civil order; and that explains how it comes to pass that, fallen, as I trust he is forever, Napoleon has still retained a train of parasitical satellites.
When the Shepherd returned to find his flock destroyed, he exclaimed: “I have been rightly served; why did I trust my sheep to a Wolf?”
“For my part, dear mother,” interposed Renée, “I trust your wishes will not prosper, and that Providence will only permit petty offenders, poor debtors, and miserable cheats to fall into M.
“He is in safe custody,” answered Villefort; “and rely upon it, if the letter is found, he will not be likely to be trusted abroad again, unless he goes forth under the especial protection of the headsman.”
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