Usually means: Depended on someone or something.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word relied:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. relied: Merriam-Webster
  2. relied: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. relied: Collins English Dictionary
  4. relied: Vocabulary.com
  5. Relied, relied: Wordnik
  6. relied: Wiktionary
  7. relied: Dictionary.com
  8. Relied: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Relied: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. relied: FreeDictionary.org
  11. relied: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. relied: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. relied: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rely)

▸ verb:  (with on or upon, formerly also with in) to trust; to have confidence in; to depend.
▸ Also see rely


Opposite:
doubted, mistrusted, questioned, disbelieved, suspected

Types:
depended, counted, looked, trusted, more...

Phrases:
relied upon, relied on, to be relied on, sigh of relied, over relied, more...



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Opposite:
doubted, mistrusted, questioned, disbelieved, suspected

Types:
depended, counted, looked, trusted, more...

Phrases:
relied upon, relied on, to be relied on, sigh of relied, over relied, relied heavily, relied for a long time, something someone could be relied kn, more...




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