Word Finder - trusting

definition

To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.

example

We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.

definition

To give credence to; to believe; to credit.

definition

To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)

example

I trust you have cleaned your room?

definition

To show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.

definition

To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.

definition

To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.

example

Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.

definition

(followed by to) To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).

example

Having lost the book, he had to trust to his memory for further details.

definition

To risk; to venture confidently.

definition

To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.

definition

To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

definition

Inclined to believe what others say; trustful

Deidre sank to the floor, not trusting herself.

Trusting people you shouldn't.

You're safer trusting him than anyone else.

He moreover accuses Eratosthenes, (whose determination of a degree he accepts without hesitation) with trusting too much to hypothesis in compiling his map instead of having recourse to latitudes and longitudes deduced by astronomical observations.

She nodded, not trusting herself to say anything else.

The ache within her deepened at the idea of trusting someone for the first time in her life, and the energy flowing between them grew more intense.

Accepting, loving, trusting someone – even if bonded – was beyond Immortal Laws to dictate.

No, I mean you're too trusting.

Howard had been alienated, and trusting anything with Connie was dubious.

On to rural America where the pickings are as fertile as the country side and there's always a trusting little soul willing to help a stranger.

Good. You are too trusting.

Deidre nodded, not trusting herself to speak.

He didn't think he'd ever be able to rationalize that both Deidres had gone to Darkyn instead of trusting him without resentment.

He'd never thought twice about trusting Harmony or any other death-dealer.

Trusting Claire had led Darian to his enslavement.

He sought to control it, not yet trusting the woman in his arms.

Not trusting her voice, she moved into his arms and tried to muster a smile.

Trusting complete strangers to take care of people I care about isn't exactly something I want to do, Jessi said with some effort.

Cesare's position was greatly shaken, and when he tried to browbeat the cardinals by means of Don Michelotto and his bravos, they refused to be intimidated; he had to leave Rome in September, trusting that the Spanish cardinals would elect a candidate friendly to his house.

Fear trickled through her as she recalled the amount of pain trusting someone could cause.

But Cesare, while trusting no one, proved a match for them all.

The next day he sent in a general confession to the Lords, 8 trusting that this would be considered satisfactory.

One that told her Andre was right about him not trusting her.

I made the mistake of not trusting my instincts when I met you, he said.

Xander shifted between her and Jonny, not trusting the idiot Black God.

Xander looked up, not fully trusting the woman who raised and then ditched him.

So you aren't mad at me for taking off the necklace and lying to you and not trusting you to help me.

Causes of friction still remained, but they did not develop into open quarrels, for Mitre was content to leave Urquiza in his province of Entre Rios, and the other administrators (caudillos) in their several governments, a large measure of autonomy, trusting that the position and growing commercial importance of Buenos Aires would inevitably tend to make the federal capital the real centre of power of the republic. In 1865 the Argentines were forced into war with Paraguay through the overbearing attitude of the president Francisco Solano Lopez.

The truth is, pastoralists for the most part carried on their industry trusting very greatly to luck, not making any special provisions against the vicissitudes of the seasons.

It is enough to point out that we have in his work another proof of the multiplicity of the factors which must be taken into consideration by the systematist, and another proof of the fallacy of trusting to one set of characters alone.

Columbus, trusting to Toscanelli's misleading chart, looked upon the countries discovered by him as belonging to eastern Asia, a view still shared about 1507 by his brother Bartolomeo.

The mother invented some plea to send the wife to the trysting-place, and then, dressing herself in male clothing, prepared to come suddenly on the scene as the lover, trusting to be able to make her escape before she was recognized.

He was the boldest and most original of Japanese landscape artists, leaving powerful and poetic records of the scenery of his own land as well as that of China, and trusting more to the sure and sweeping stroke of the brush than to color.

Its members have been keen evangelists, trusting largely to "revivals" for their success, staunch Radicals in politics and total abstainers to a man.

The Chinese had soon occasion to perceive how much more essential the perfection of the compass was to the superior navigators of Europe than to themselves, as the commanders of the ` Lion ' and ` Hindostan,' trusting to that instrument, stood out directly from the land into the sea."

She disgraced herself by living with her last lover, Zubov, when she was a woman of sixty-seven, trusting him with power and lavishing public money on him.

Sir Humphry Davy described him as a "very coarse experimenter," who "almost always found the results he required, trusting to his head rather than his hands."

His conviction of the righteousness of his cause, of the evils and dangers of slavery, and of the absolute necessity of the contemplated movement, was intensified by opposition, and he resolved to go forward, trusting in God for success.

Partly by their help, partly by study of the scriptures, he came to understand that God's pardon was to be won by trusting to His promises.

The world at large knew better; but even Temple warned him, in the case of Essays and Reviews, " You will not keep friends if you compel them to feel that in every crisis of life they must be on their guard against trusting you."

He at once set off, and, trusting apparently to her affection for him, presented himself suddenly before her.

They depended mainly on the utilization of natural air currents, trusting for stability and balance to movements in their own bodies, or in portions of their machines which they could control.

He had by his will divided his private wealth between his two daughters and Nero, trusting thereby to win imperial favour for his family.

But he failed to win any decisive advantage thereby over King Philip. It was not till 1346, when he adopted the new policy of trusting nothing to allies, and striking at the heart of France with a purely English army, that Edward found the fortune of war turning in his favor.

His instruments were ministers of ability chosen from the clergy and the gentryhe seems to have been equally averse to trusting the baronage at the one end of the social scale, or mere upstarts at the other, and it is notable that no one during his reign can be called a court favorite.

The king of Denmark, trusting to supplies from England which never came, was defeated at Lutter.

The new government, with this experience before it, decided on trusting to private enterprise to supply the necessary food, and on throwing the whole cost of the works which the locality might undertake on local funds.

Trusting in his influence over the army he resolved to lead it against the Convention, and, in order to secure his rear, he negotiated with the enemy.

He blamed the king of Germany for trusting his nobles, which he said could only increase their pride and leaning to rebellion.

Carelessness in trusting too much to a young colt that begins its training by being docile is a fruitful source of untrustworthy habits which need never have developed.