Synonyms for rely
rɪˈlaɪre·ly

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. trust, swear, rely, bankverb

   have confidence or faith in

   "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"

   Synonyms:
   depose, affirm, blaspheme, trust, imprecate, depone, swan, aver, confide, avow, entrust, hope, cuss, desire, swear, curse, assert, intrust, commit, deposit, bank, verify, believe

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:5.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "rely":

   count, depend, invoke, entrust, trust, proud, build, resort

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1. Personal Care Products Council:

   We are aware of the study reporting the presence of benzene in some of the sunscreen products tested, there is nothing more important than safety. If our consumers can't believe in a product or rely on it to do what it says, then nothing else matters.

2. Fu Ning:

   I feel fearful, because there's no cure for the virus, you have to rely on your immunity if you get an infection. It sounds very scary.

3. Jim Free:

   Our management team apologize to [ the operator in charge of overseeing the process ] because we had made some manual procedure changes between the attempt on Monday and attempt on Saturday, we practiced it during the week but they'd only had a couple of chances. So we didn't as a leadership team, put our our operators in the best place we could have we rely really heavily on our credit team.

4. Doug Adams:

   We think we can lower the cost of maintenance by two to three cents per kilowatt hour. That is a game changer from standpoint of the viability of wind energy. It becomes absolutely competitive with the fossil fuels that we rely on today, without subsidies it starts to become cost competitive.

5. Chris Wysopal:

   As a society, we need to fund critical open-source projects [ that ] technology providers rely on and make us all vulnerable when vulnerabilities are found, i hope that the White House invited members of the Apache Group or other prominent open-source maintainers so they could hear about the struggles these volunteer teams have and resources they could use the most.