Beleave vs. Believe

Beleaveverb

To leave behind, abandon.

Believeverb

(transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)

‘If you believe the numbers, you'll agree we need change.’; ‘I believe there are faeries.’;

Beleaveverb

To be left; to remain.

Believeverb

(transitive) To accept that someone is telling the truth.

‘Why did I ever believe you?’;

Beleaveverb

To leave or to be left.

Believeverb

(intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.

‘After that night in the church, I believed.’;

Believeverb

To consider likely

Believeverb

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine.

‘Our conqueror (whom I nowOf force believe almighty).’; ‘King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets ?’; ‘Often followed by a dependent clause.I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.’;

Believeverb

To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith.

‘Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.’; ‘With the heart man believeth unto righteousness.’;

Believeverb

To think; to suppose.

‘I will not believe so meanly of you.’;

Believeverb

accept as true; take to be true;

‘I believed his report’; ‘We didn't believe his stories from the War’; ‘She believes in spirits’;

Believeverb

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’;

Believeverb

be confident about something;

‘I believe that he will come back from the war’;

Believeverb

follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer;

‘When you hear his sermons, you will be able to believe, too’;

Believeverb

credit with veracity;

‘You cannot believe this man’; ‘Should we believe a publication like the National Inquirer?’;

Believeverb

accept that (something) is true, especially without proof

‘the superintendent believed Lancaster's story’; ‘some 23 per cent believe that smoking keeps down weight’;

Believeverb

accept the statement of (someone) as true

‘he didn't believe her’;

Believeverb

have religious faith

‘there are those on the fringes of the Church who do not really believe’;

Believeverb

feel sure that (someone) is capable of doing something

‘I wouldn't have believed it of Lavinia—what an extraordinary woman!’;

Believeverb

hold (something) as an opinion; think

‘I believe we've already met’; ‘four men were believed to be trapped’;