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Trust

Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance.

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Broader term 24

Allow 76% connected

To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

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Anticipate 76% connected

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

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Await 76% connected

To watch for; to look out for.

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Belief 76% connected

Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; rel…

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Believe 76% connected

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arg…

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Certainty 76% connected

The quality, state, or condition, of being certain.

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Countenance 76% connected

To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.

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Expect 76% connected

To wait for; to await.

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Friendship 76% connected

The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; fr…

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Hand 76% connected

That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

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Holding 76% connected

of Hold

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Lend 76% connected

To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow.

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Let 76% connected

To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

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Loan 76% connected

A loanin.

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Look 76% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Permit 76% connected

To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.

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Pool 76% connected

A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for wat…

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Property 76% connected

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as,…

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Reach 76% connected

To retch.

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Syndicate 76% connected

The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.

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Trait 76% connected

A stroke; a touch.

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Wait 76% connected

To watch; to observe; to take notice.

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Bank 76% connected

A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.

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Bet 76% connected

That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge;…

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Calculate 76% connected

To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Commend 76% connected

To commit, intrust, or give in charge for care or preservation.

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Consign 76% connected

To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of…

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Count 76% connected

To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to comp…

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Credit 76% connected

Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.

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Depend 76% connected

To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.

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Lean 76% connected

To conceal.

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Look 76% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Obligate 76% connected

To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive.

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Reckon 76% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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Recommit 76% connected

To commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.

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Rely 76% connected

To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to h…

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Swear 76% connected

To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also…

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Narrower term 1

Credulity 76% connected

Readiness of belief; a disposition to believe on slight evidence.

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Derivationally related 12

Commit 74% connected

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

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Commit 74% connected

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

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Hope 74% connected

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

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Hope 74% connected

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

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Hoper 74% connected

One who hopes.

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Hoper 74% connected

One who hopes.

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Promise 74% connected

In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…

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Promise 74% connected

In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…

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Truster 74% connected

One who trusts, or credits.

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Truster 74% connected

One who trusts, or credits.

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Trusty 74% connected

Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable.

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Trusty 74% connected

Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable.

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Synonym 12

Believe 92% connected

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arg…

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Cartel 92% connected

An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners.

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Combine 92% connected

To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous substance, as by chemical u…

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Commit 92% connected

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

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Confide 92% connected

To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.

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Confidence 92% connected

The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in.

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Desire 92% connected

To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.

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Entrust 92% connected

See Intrust.

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Faith 92% connected

Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on…

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Hope 92% connected

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Intrust 92% connected

To deliver (something) to another in trust; to deliver to (another) something in trust; to commit or surrender (something) to another with a certain…

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Reliance 92% connected

The act of relying, or the condition or quality of being reliant; dependence; confidence; trust; repose of mind upon what is deemed sufficient suppor…

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Antonym 4

Distrust 94% connected

To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistru…

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Distrust 94% connected

To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistru…

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Mistrust 94% connected

Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust.

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Mistrust 94% connected

Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust.

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