Definition of "trusting" []

• Present participle of trust. (verb)

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• "You begin by what you call trusting a friend, that is, aiding him to self-destruction -- buying him arsenic to clear his complexion -- you end by dragging all near you into your own abyss, as a drowning man would clutch at his own brother."
• "On the other hand, a longtime friend of mine who went to university and graduate school and who is a PHD with an IQ of over 200, has very patiently explained to me that I'm utterly dumb, gullible and lacking any sense or understanding that it was my own stupid behavior in trusting my ex-husband and his cronies for 8 years that got me into trouble."
• "Where I differ with him is in trusting Senator Mitchell to do the right thing."