EGAVE

rely

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 14.50 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To trust; to have confidence in.
  2. verb To depend; to be dependent upon.
    The city relies on the subway system.
  3. verb To be intellectually contingent from; to stem from.
  4. verb To fasten, fix, attach
    Therefore [they] must needs relye their faithe upon the sillie Ministers faithlesse fidelitie.
  5. verb To bring together again; to rally.
    Petrius, that was a noble knyght, and bolde and hardy, relied his peple a-boute hym,

Similar words

trust swear bank reliance trusting reliable entrust believe have assert

Often followed by

on upon heavily more for solely entirely in to

Word family

reliability reliable reliably reliance reliant relied relier reliers relies relocate

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