I guess my view on friendship is pretty bleak because I've never really had to rely on anyone for anything.
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Rely
//ɹɪˈlaɪ//
Synonyms for "rely" (40 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (20)
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Translations
53 translations across 29 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- اِعْتَمَدَ verb (rest with confidence)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- arxalanmaq verb (rest with confidence)
- bel bağlamaq verb (rest with confidence)
- güvənmək verb (rest with confidence)
Bashkir
1 entries- ышаныу verb (rest with confidence)
Bulgarian
2 entries- осланям се verb (rest with confidence)
- разчи́там verb (rest with confidence)
Catalan
1 entries- comptar amb verb (rest with confidence)
Cebuano
1 entries- salig verb (rest with confidence)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 依賴 /依赖 verb (rest with confidence)
- 依靠 verb (rest with confidence)
Czech
1 entries- spoléhat verb (rest with confidence)
Dutch
1 entries- rekenen op verb (rest with confidence)
Finnish
1 entries- luottaa verb (rest with confidence)
French
1 entries- compter sur verb (rest with confidence)
German
3 entries- abhängen verb (rest with confidence)
- sich verlassen verb (rest with confidence)
- vertrauen verb (rest with confidence)
Hungarian
4 entries- bízik verb (rest with confidence)
- hagyatkozik verb (rest with confidence)
- megbízik verb (rest with confidence)
- számít verb (rest with confidence)
Irish
3 entries- bí ag brath ar verb (rest with confidence)
- cuir muinín i verb (rest with confidence)
- muinín a bheith agat as verb (rest with confidence)
Italian
2 entries- basarsi verb (rest with confidence)
- fare affidamento verb (rest with confidence)
Japanese
3 entries- あてにする verb (rest with confidence)
- 頼む verb (rest with confidence)
- 頼る verb (rest with confidence)
Korean
1 entries- 의지(依支)하다 verb (rest with confidence)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠠᡴᡩᠠᠮᠪᡳ verb (rest with confidence)
Māori
3 entries- whakamanawa verb (rest with confidence)
- whakawhirinaki verb (rest with confidence)
- whirinaki verb (rest with confidence)
Norwegian
1 entries- lite på verb (rest with confidence)
Polish
2 entries- polegać verb (rest with confidence)
- polegać na verb (rest with confidence)
Portuguese
1 entries- contar com verb (rest with confidence)
Russian
3 entries- полага́ться verb (rest with confidence)
- положи́ться verb (rest with confidence)
- рассчи́тывать verb (rest with confidence)
Slovak
2 entries- opierať sa verb (rest with confidence)
- spoliehať sa verb (rest with confidence)
Southern Altai
1 entries- иженер verb (rest with confidence)
Spanish
2 entries- atenerse verb (rest with confidence)
- contar con verb (rest with confidence)
Swedish
1 entries- lita på verb (rest with confidence)
Ukrainian
2 entries- поклада́тися verb (rest with confidence)
- розрахо́вувати verb (rest with confidence)
Vietnamese
2 entries- dựa vào verb (rest with confidence)
- tin cậy verb (rest with confidence)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
You can rely on him.
Source: tatoeba (9905)
You can rely on her.
Source: tatoeba (10078)
You can rely on him. He never lets you down.
Source: tatoeba (15978)
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