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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Lack of trust or confidence.
  • transitive verb To regard without trust or confidence.
  • transitive verb To doubt the truth or sincerity of.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To suspect; doubt; regard with suspicion or jealousy.
  • To suspect; apprehend: said of a fact or circumstance.
  • noun Lack of trust or confidence; suspicion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust.
  • transitive verb To regard with jealousy or suspicion; to suspect; to doubt the integrity of; to distrust.
  • transitive verb To forebode as near, or likely to occur; to surmise.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Lack of trust or confidence.
  • verb To have no confidence in something
  • verb To be wary, suspicious or doubtful

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the trait of not trusting others
  • noun doubt about someone's honesty
  • verb regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in

Etymologies

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mis- +‎ trust

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