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to regain trust

to regain trust

1 3.9
To win back someone's trust after you lost it
  • phrasal verb
translation icon : recuperar la confianza
  • After the scandal, the organization worked hard to regain trust from its supporters.

That's what someone said he'll never regain trust if you agree to these, you'll just grow resentful and cheat again.

Examples

  • It takes a lot of work for a kid to regain trust in her mom.

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  • And the easiest, fastest way to regain trust is by going back to a gold standard.

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  • Yeah, I mean, I, I do think we do have to regain trust in public health by being honest.

  • "What can we do to regain trust?

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  • Because let me bring it to you, the battle to regain trust begins now with all of you.

  • The corruption in science these days is disgusting, and there is a long road the whole scientific community must travel to regain trust.

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  • The way that they will be incentivized to regain trust is when they have lost trust in a way that negatively effects them.

  • Even though he tries so hard, I still am recovering from the pain; I still need time to regain trust, and he sometimes does not understand how it can't just be done and over.

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  • "Once the chaos hits, which I would define as a complete loss of confidence in paper money, social unrest, and riots, when that sort of thing starts to break out, governments will have to do something and they'll have to regain trust.

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  • If climate science wants to regain trust, it will have to include independent verification, and it will have to cease and desist from grabbing the loudspeaker every time there is a weather event on Planet Earth.

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Synonyms

to win back
vsto regain trust
33 3.4

Get back someone or something you lost

is used specifically to restore someone's confidence rather than any lost thing
to reinstill
vsto regain trust
  • US
5.9

Bring a feeling, idea or quality back into people

focuses on actively restoring another's confidence through action, not only causing feeling

Antonyms

to betray
143 4.6

Tell someone's secret to other people

to alienate
123 6.7

To make someone feel alone and lose support from others

Surface Forms

regain trust infinitive
regained trust past
regained trust past participle
regaining trust present participle
regains trust third person singular

Morphology

regain + trust

The meaning 'to win back someone's confidence' is directly and compositionally derived from 'regain' (to obtain again) + 'trust' (confidence), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the MWE meaning. This is a regular verb + noun collocation with clear semantics and common cross-linguistic equivalents, making it transparent to learners.

Etymology

Regain trust is like repairing a small, broken cup and slowly giving it back to someone so they can feel safe using it again. To regain is to get something back and trust is someone's belief in you, so the phrase means 'to win back someone's confidence'.