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Trusting and Using

verb

  • Have confidence or faith in.
    • usage: "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"
  • Allow without fear.
  • Be confident about something.
    • usage: "I believe that he will come back from the war"
  • Expect and wish.
    • usage: "I trust you will behave better from now on"; "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise"
  • Confer a trust upon.
    • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • Extend credit to.
    • usage: "don't trust my ex-wife; I won't pay her debts anymore"

adjective

  • Inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust."great brown eye, true and trustful- Nordhoff & Hall

noun

  • An act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly. )
    • usage: "capitalistic exploitation of the working class"; "paying Blacks less and charging them more is a form of victimization"

verb

  • Put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose.
    • usage: "use your head"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer"
  • Take or consume (regularly or habitually. )
    • usage: "She uses drugs rarely"
  • Use up, consume fully.
    • usage: "The legislature expended its time on school questions"
  • Seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage.
    • usage: "She uses her influential friends to get jobs"; "The president's wife used her good connections"
  • Avail oneself to.
    • usage: "apply a principle"; "practice a religion"; "use care when going down the stairs"; "use your common sense"; "practice non-violent resistance"
  • Habitually do something (use only in the past tense. )
    • usage: "She used to call her mother every week but now she calls only occasionally"; "I used to get sick when I ate in that dining hall"; "They used to vacation in the Bahamas"
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