trusting

Verb

trust (third-person singular simple present trusts, present participle trusting, simple past and past participle trusted)

1. (transitive) To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
   • We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.
2. (intransitive) To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.
   • In God We Trust
3. (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
   • Trust me, you looke well.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...
4. (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
   • I trust you have cleaned your room?
5. (transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
   • Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain.1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number)
6. (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
   • Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC

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