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say it: bi-LEEV
believe is a verb meaning "accept as true; take to be true". It carries 5 recorded senses.
accept as true; take to be true
“I believed his report”
“We didn't believe his stories from the War”
“She believes in spirits”
follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer
“When you hear his sermons, you will be able to believe, too”
religion
credit with veracity
“You cannot believe this man”
“Should we believe a publication like the National Enquirer?”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for believe come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.