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doubt

Pronunciation: /daʊt/

The English word “doubt” has 8 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To consider questionable or unlikely; to hesitate to believe; to lack confidence in; to question.
  2. To harbour suspicion about; suspect.
  3. To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend.
  4. To fill with fear; to affright.
  5. To dread, to fear.

noun

  1. Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.
  2. A point of uncertainty, especially a yes/no or a multiple-choice question
  3. a question (that one has)
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