Believe

/bɪˈliːv/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).
2. (transitive) To accept that someone is telling the truth.
3. (transitive) To have been persuaded to accept the factuality of something despite a lack of sufficient evidence therefore.
4. (intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.
5. (transitive) To opine, think, reckon.
6. [with in]

Example Sentences

If you believe the numbers, you'll agree we need change.

I believe there are faeries.

FOꝛaſmuch as many haue taken in hande to ſet fooꝛth in oꝛder a declaration of thoſe things which are most ſurely beleeued among vs[…]

Many persons believe that the so-called "dollar of the daddies," weighing 412½ grains (nine tenths fine), having a ratio to gold of "16 to 1" in value when first coined, was the original dollar of the Constitution.

[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.

Why did I ever believe you?

BEloued, beleeue not euery ſpirit, but trie the ſpirits, whether they are of God: becauſe many falſe prophets are gone out into the woꝛld.

After that night in the church, I believed.

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• believes
• believing
• believed
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• believe
• believest
• believedst
• believeth
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• beleeve

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