0 present participle of believe
1 to think that something is true, correct, or real:
Strangely, no one believed us when we told them we'd been visited by a creature from Mars.
[ + that ] He believes that all children are born with equal intelligence.
"Is she coming alone?" "We believe not/so (= we think she is not/is)."
[ + obj + to infinitive ] I believe her to be the finest violinist in the world.
[ + obj + adj ] All the crew are missing, believed dead.
He told me she was just a friend, but I don't believe a word of it!
Believe me, I was scared !
He said the car in front backed into him, and if you believe that, you'll believe anything!
Let's make believe (that) we're pirates.
He claims to have met the president, but I don't believe him.
I still believe that people are fundamentally good.
It's hard to believe there's anything wrong with him - he looks so healthy.
I don't believe they should have put him in prison. It isn't right.
I can be perfectly rational in believing that my faculty of vision is keener than my companions.
Believing in these worlds resolves moral dilemmas that undermine social cooperation.
Consider, for example, the property of both believing something, and not believing anything, which entails that arithmetic is decidable.
