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toevertrouwen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • commit verb To carry out a crime, mistake, or wrongdoing.
  • confide verb To tell someone a secret, trusting them to keep it private.
  • entrust verb To give someone responsibility for something valuable or important, trusting them to look after it.
  • unload verb To remove cargo or goods from a vehicle, ship, or container.

Senses

toevertrouwen is used for these senses in English:

  • commit (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
  • confide (intransitive, with in) To take (someone) into one's confidence, to speak in secret with.
  • confide (transitive, intransitive) To say (something) in confidence.
  • entrust (transitive) To trust to the care of.

commit — full definition

  1. verb To carry out a crime, mistake, or wrongdoing.
  2. verb To pledge or bind oneself to a course of action.
  3. verb To save a set of changes permanently, especially in software or version control.

confide — full definition

  1. verb To tell someone a secret, trusting them to keep it private.
  2. verb To entrust a task or responsibility to someone.

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