Crossword clues for trusted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trust \Trust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trusting.] [OE. trusten, trosten. See Trust, n.]
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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.
--Shak.He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived.
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To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
Trust me, you look well.
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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.
--2 John 12.We trustwe have a good conscience.
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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.
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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.
--Macaulay. 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.
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To risk; to venture confidently.
[Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: trust)
WordNet
adj. (of persons) worthy of trust or confidence; "a sure (or trusted) friend" [syn: sure]
Usage examples of "trusted".
The National Security Advisor was in his shirtsleeves, his suit coat draped over one of the twenty or so chairs in the room where presidents had been meeting with their most trusted advisors since Dwight David Eisenhower.
Of this he took no heed, but was, as far as appearances might be trusted, enjoying soft repose and bright celestial dreams.
My dear friend Dzhidro Alprendauro met Arnesen on the occasion of his departure from Bromfkidor which is how he aquired his familiarity with the Danish language, and he felt that Arnesen sensed that the Bromfkidoran government could not be trusted and was filled with fear of ever returning to that region, as a result.
However, I did remember my duty to Lord Artos, and I discovered which one of the many traders could be trusted to sell us horses that were sound, free of vice, and unimpaired by those covert tricks by which clever traders hide defects.
Although I trusted it would not be so, I wanted, before taking the important step of marriage, to probe her heart, and I resolved to try an experiment which would at once enable me to judge the real feelings of her inmost soul.
I told my landlord that I would dine at noon, and that I trusted to him to celebrate my liberation in a fitting manner, and then I went to the post office to see if there were any letters for me.
She knew Camilla trusted her enough not to take advantage, or she would never have allowed that.
I to do with fifteen cohorts of men who cannot be trusted and have no stomach for a fight?
On the contrary, actual events suggest rather that the two men continued to be close colleagues, and trusted each other.
Wimbush had been in charge of the Diamunde Incursion, which, because he knew nothing about ground operations and trusted his army commanders, had gone awry.
Some there were who, knowing both the enemy and the mountains, felt a cold chill within their hearts as they asked themselves how an army was to come through, but the greater number, from General to private, trusted implicitly in the valour of their comrades and in the luck of the British Army.
The pair went on to retrieve one of the key elements in the plan and, he hoped, further proof that Daniels could be trusted.
Archer waited while the scanner absorbed the data, ticking off each new clue as further proof that Daniels could be trusted.
In early February 1991, I tried to write a piece suggesting that Iraqi morale might be starting to erode across the board, but General Colin Powell himself shot it down with the angry rebuke that we should never write intelligence based on defector reporting because defectors can never be trusted.
Otherwise Americans might dwell on the fact that Democrats cannot be trusted with the defense of the nation.