to not trust someone or something:
Distrust
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To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; todeem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to besuspicious of; to mistrust.Not distrusting my health. 2 Mac. ix. 22.To distrust the justice of your cause. Dryden.He that requireth the oath doth distrust that other. Udall.Of all afraid, Distrusting all, a wise, suspicious maid. Collins.
Distrust meaning & definition 1 of Distrust.
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dis·trust /dɪsˈtrʌst/ {dis-truhst}
–verb (used with object)
to regard with doubt or suspicion; have no trust in.
–noun
lack of trust; doubt; {suspicion}.
Origin:
1505–15; dis-1 trust
—Related forms
dis·trust·er, noun
pre·dis·trust, noun, verb (used with object)
—Synonyms
See [suspicion].Distrust meaning & definition 2 of Distrust.
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