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DISBELIEVE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they disbelieve ... he / she / it disbelieves
Past simple: disbelieved
Past participle: disbelieved
-ing form: disbelieving
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reject as false; refuse to accept
Synonyms:
disbelieve; discredit
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "disbelieve" is one way to...):
reject (refuse to accept or acknowledge)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disbelieve"):
doubt (consider unlikely or have doubts about)
distrust; mistrust; suspect (regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Antonym:
believe (accept as true; take to be true)
