trust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: trŭst
ipa: /tɹʌst/
ipa: [t͡ʃʰɹɐst]
ipa: /tɹʊst/
rhymes: -ʌst
homophone: trussed
Forms: form: trusts
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Etymology: From Middle English trust, trost (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, so trust has come to be considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade Proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste (“host”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”). Akin to Danish trøst (“comfort, solace”), Saterland Frisian Traast (“comfort, solace”), West Frisian treast (“comfort, solace”), Dutch troost (“comfort, consolation”), German Trost (“comfort, consolation”), Gothic trausti (“alliance, pact”). Doublet of tryst. More at true, tree.
Senses: examples: text: We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.
text: If I live to see it, I will never trust his word after.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: He that trusts without reserve will at last be deceived.
ref: October 5, 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 162
glosses: To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
examples: raw_tags: official US motto
text: In God We Trust
text: Trust in me, just in me / Shut your eyes and trust in me
ref: 1967, Sherman Brothers, “Trust in Me (The Python's Song)”, in The Jungle Book:
glosses: To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.
raw_tags: with in
examples: text: Trust me, you looke well.
ref: 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: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
examples: text: I trust you have cleaned your room?
text: I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 John 1:12:
text: We trust we have a good conscience.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 13:18:
glosses: To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
examples: text: Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain.
ref: 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
examples: text: Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war.
ref: 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:
glosses: To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
examples: text: Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
glosses: To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
examples: text: to trust to luck
text: Having lost the book, he had to trust to his memory for further details.
glosses: To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
examples: text: [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To risk; to venture confidently.
examples: text: More ſhould I queſtion thee, and more I muſt, / Though more to know, could not be more to truſt: […]
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 236, column 2:
text: I will trust and not be afraid.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 12:2:
glosses: To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
glosses: To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from trust (verb)
word: betrust
sense: Terms derived from trust (verb)
word: foretrust
sense: Terms derived from trust (verb)
word: mistrust
sense: Terms derived from trust (verb)
word: never trust me
sense: Terms derived from trust (verb)
word: trustable
sense: Terms derived from trust (verb)
word: trustee
sense: Terms derived from trust (verb)
word: truster
sense: Terms derived from trust (verb)
word: trust everybody, but cut the cards
sense: Terms derived from trust (verb)
word: trusting
sense: Terms derived from trust (verb)
word: trustor
sense: Terms derived from trust (verb)
word: trust someone across the street
sense: Terms derived from trust (verb)
word: trust someone as far as one can spit
sense: Terms derived from trust (verb)
word: trust someone as far as one could fling a bull by the tail
sense: Terms derived from trust (verb)
word: trust someone as far as one could spit
sense: Terms derived from trust (verb)
word: trust someone as far as one could throw them
sense: Terms derived from trust (verb)
word: trust someone to
sense: Terms derived from trust (verb)
word: trust the process