Collocations for "believe"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "believe" in context.
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believe
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- believe in [God, ghosts, Santa Claus, the constitution]
- do you believe in [God]?
- believe in [him, yourself, the kindness of strangers]
- believe they [have, are, can, should, will]
- still believe that
- it's hard to believe (that)
- believe (me) that
- believe what they want (to believe)
- believe it [would, could, might] be possible
- I believe so
- I don't believe it!
- I don't believe for [an instant, a moment] that
- I don't believe you
- don't you believe it!
- [you, you'd] better believe it!
- believe the [information, hype, press, lies]
- (don't) believe her [story, account, lies]
- [blindly, firmly, strongly] believe
- [researchers, experts, investigators] believe
- are believed to [have, contain, be]
- believed by [many, most, some]
- believed [at first, all along]
- believed to have been [murdered, killed, abducted]
'believe' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
April
- August
- God
- I
- July
- June
- alien
- almighty
- amount
- badly
- bigot
- blunt
- cause
- central
- childish
- compelling
- completely
- con
- condition
- contrary
- conversely
- daft
- dated
- death
- delusion
- dense
- destiny
- divine
- divorce
- do
- elf
- excuse
- exist
- fairy
- firmly
- fool
- foolish
- gall
- ghost
- goodness
- gossip
- graphic
- gullible
- hard
- hardly
- he
- hereafter
- honesty
- hype
- insane