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rely upon

rely upon is the alternative form of rely on.

Meaning of rely on

Verb

rely on (third-person singular simple present relies on, present participle relying on, simple past and past participle relied on)

  1. (transitive) To be confident in.
    • I know I can rely on you.
  2. (transitive) To be dependent upon.
    • The city relies on the subway system.

Forms of rely upon

third-person singular presentrelies upon
present participlerelying upon
past participlerelied upon
pastrelied upon

Questions about rely upon

What is rely upon the alternative form of?
Rely upon is the alternative form of rely on.

Words near rely upon in the dictionary

  1. ReLUs
  2. relvar
  3. relvars
  4. rely
  5. rely on
  6. rely upon
  7. Relyea
  8. Relyeas
  9. relyed
  10. relying
  11. relying on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rely upon (page history and authors); rely on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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