trust

trust

verb

Definition of TRUST

1

to give a task, duty, or responsibility to <trusted the eldest child with walking the dog every morning>

Synonyms assign, charge, commission, task, trust

Related Words confer, impose; commit, confide, consign, delegate, recommend, relegate, repose; allocate, allot; authorize, empower, invest

2

to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another <I wouldn't trust my wallet with a complete stranger if I were you>

Synonyms commend, commit, confide, consign, delegate, deliver, entrust (also intrust), give over, hand, hand over, leave, pass, recommend, repose, transfer, transmit, trust, turn over, vest

Related Words confer, grant; assign, deal (out), dispense, disperse, distribute, divide; hand in, release, relinquish, submit, surrender, turn in, yield; bequeath, hand down, hand on, will; advance, lend, loan; furnish, supply; recommit, redeliver, regive, retransfer, retransmit

Near Antonyms detain, hold back, reserve, withhold; own, possess; accept, receive, take in; occupy, take, take over

Antonyms hold, keep, retain

3

to regard as right or true <don't trust everything you read in the newspaper>

Synonyms accept, buy, credit, swallow, take, trust

Related Words account, accredit, understand; assume, presume, suppose; conclude, deduce, infer

Near Antonyms distrust, doubt, misdoubt, mistrust, question, suspect; challenge, dispute

Antonyms disbelieve, discredit, reject