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Trusted   /trˈəstɪd/   Listen
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Trust  v. t.  (past & past part. trusted; pres. part. trusting)  
1.
To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us. "I will never trust his word after." "He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived."
2.
To give credence to; to believe; to credit. "Trust me, you look well."
3.
To hope confidently; to believe; usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object. "I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face." "We trustwe have a good conscience."
4.
To show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something. "Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain."
5.
To commit, as to one's care; to intrust. "Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war."
6.
To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
7.
To risk; to venture confidently. "(Beguiled) by thee to trust thee from my side."


Trust  v. i.  
1.
To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide. "More to know could not be more to trust."
2.
To be confident, as of something future; to hope. "I will trust and not be afraid."
3.
To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit. "It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust."
To trust in, To trust on, to place confidence in,; to rely on; to depend. "Trust in the Lord, and do good." "A priest... on whom we trust." "Her widening streets on new foundations trust."
To trust to or To trust unto, to depend on; to have confidence in; to rely on; as, to trust to luck. "They trusted unto the liers in wait."





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"Trusted" Quotes from Famous Books



... and that whoever copied truly what was before his eyes would possess the same variety in his descriptions, and exhibit apparently an imagination as boundless as the range of Nature in the scenes he recorded; whereas, whoever trusted to his imagination would soon find his own mind circumscribed and contracted to a few images, and the repetition of these would sooner or later produce that very monotony and barrenness which had always haunted descriptive poetry ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 76, February, 1864 • Various
... to old Mrs. Bear, who was easy as regarded people, And thought well of everybody, and trusted all. So she took in for A house-mate another old woman. Their wigwam was all by itself, and the next neighbor was so far off that he was not their neighbor at all, but that ...
— The Algonquin Legends of New England • Charles Godfrey Leland
... so since this morning," she whispered, "when you told me that you trusted no one to climb to my balcony in the hotel but yourself? Are you not an Arab now as then? Have I become of so little value to you that you are not even jealous ...
— The Sheik - A Novel • E. M. Hull
... Tom replied courteously, that he would not give them the trouble, being able, he trusted, to perform without assistance the not uncommon feat of shutting the stable-door after the horse ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume I • Charles Kingsley
... tradesmen with the same care you bestow in the choice of a physician. A grocer or butcher who has once sold stale, adulterated, or impure wares has forfeited his right to be trusted. A man who is honestly trying to build up a good trade must have the confidence of his customers and it is to his interest to sell only worthy goods; this confidence he can gain only by proving his trustworthiness. ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) • Various


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