believe
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believe |
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accept, accept for gospel, accept implicitly,
accredit, admit, allow, assume, be afraid, be certain,
be pious, be religious, believe in, believe
without reservation, buy, conceive, conclude, confide in, conjecture, consider, credit, daresay,
deduce, deem, divine, dream, expect, fancy, fear God, feel, gather, give faith to, grant, have confidence
in, have faith, have faith in, hold, hope in, imagine, infer, keep the faith, let, let be, love God, maintain, make believe, opine, place confidence in, place reliance in, prefigure, presume, presuppose,
presurmise, pretend, provisionally accept, put faith in, put trust in, receive, reckon, rely on, rely upon, repose
confidence in, repose in, repute, rest in, say, sense, set store by, suppose, surmise, suspect,
swallow, swear by, take,
take for, take for granted, take it, take on faith, take on trust, take stock in,
take to be, think, trust,
trust in, trust in God, trust to, understand
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make believe |
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act, act a part, affect,
affected, apocryphal, apparition, artificial, assume, assumed, bastard, bluff,
bogus, brainchild, brummagem,
bubble, charade, chimera, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, cover up, delirium, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, distorted, dressed up, dummy, eidolon, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, fabulous, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, feign, feigned, fiction, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figment, figmental, four-flush, gammon, garbled, hallucination, idle fancy, illegitimate, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, imitation, insubstantial image, invention, junky, legendary, let on, let on like, maggot, make a pretense, make as if, make like, man-made,
mock, myth, mythic,
mythicized, mythified, mythological, nonactual, nonfactual, nonrealistic, pageant, perverted, phantasm, phantom, phony, pinchbeck,
play, play a part, play possum, playact, pretend, pretended, pretension, pretentiousness, profess, pseudo, put-on, put on, quasi, queer, romance,
self-styled, sham, shoddy, sick fancy, simulate, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, thick-coming fancies, tin, tinsel, titivated, trip, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, vapor, vision, warped, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams
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reason to believe |
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basis for belief, body of evidence, chain of evidence, clue, data, datum, documentation, evidence, exhibit, fact, facts, grounds, grounds for belief, indication, item of evidence, manifestation, mark, material grounds, muniments, mute witness, piece of evidence, premises, proof, relevant fact, sign, symptom, token
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Main entries similar to: believe
accept, assume, buy, conceit, conceive, conclude, conjecture, consider, credit, daresay, deduce, deem, divine,
dream, esteem, estimate, expect, fancy, feel, figure, gather,
grant, guess, hold, imagine, infer, judge, let, let be,
opiate, opine, perceive, prefigure, presume, presuppose, receive, reckon, repute, say, sense, suppose, surmise,
suspect, swallow, take, take for, take for granted,
take it, think, trust, understand, view
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