Pronunciations (2)
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/ɪnˈtɹʌst/
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ɪnˈtɹʌst
Verb
To trust to the care of.
Usage- Transitive
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Can I entrust you with a secret?
He entrusted me his daughter.
More examples (3)
He entrusts that task to her.
The study of the main body of Hittite texts was intrusted^([sic]) to the Austrian scholar Hrozny, who in 1915 published a preliminary account of his results[…]
The first step toward finding a way out of this place begins when we take a flamethrower to Newt Gingrich cum Alvin Toffler style laissez-faire futurism, which entrusts our collective fate to the tender mercies of the marketplace, or New Age cyberbole that would have us pin our hopes to a millennial blastoff.
Verb
confer a trust upon
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The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret
I commit my soul to God
put into the care or protection of someone
- Synonyms
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He left the decision to his deputy
leave your child in the nurse's care