Verb

• (118)S: (v) believe (accept as true; take to be true) "I believed his report"; "We didn't believe his stories from the War"; "She believes in spirits"
• (72)S: (v) think, believe, consider, conceive (judge or regard; look upon; judge) "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• S: (v) hold (remain committed to) "I hold to these ideas"
• S: (v) rethink (change one's mind) "He rethought his decision to take a vacation"
• S: (v) think (dispose the mind in a certain way) "Do you really think so?"
• S: (v) think of, repute, know as, be known as, regard as, look upon, look on, esteem, take to be (look on as or consider) "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He is reputed to be intelligent"
• S: (v) feel (have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude) "She felt small and insignificant"; "You make me feel naked"; "I made the students feel different about themselves"
• S: (v) see, consider, reckon, view, regard (deem to be) "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• (37)S: (v) believe, trust (be confident about something) "I believe that he will come back from the war"
• (10)S: (v) believe (follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer) "When you hear his sermons, you will be able to believe, too"
• (2)S: (v) believe (credit with veracity) "You cannot believe this man"; "Should we believe a publication like the National Enquirer?"