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ENTRUST
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they entrust ... he / she / it entrusts
Past simple: entrusted
Past participle: entrusted
-ing form: entrusting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Confer a trust upon
Example:
I commit my soul to God
Synonyms:
commit; confide; entrust; intrust; trust
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "entrust" is one way to...):
give; hand; pass; pass on; reach; turn over (place into the hands or custody of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "entrust"):
commend (give to in charge)
charge; consign (give over to another for care or safekeeping)
recommit (commit again)
obligate (commit in order to fulfill an obligation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sentence example:
They entrust him to write the letter
Sense 2
Meaning:
Put into the care or protection of someone
Example:
leave your child in the nurse's care
Synonyms:
entrust; leave
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "entrust" is one way to...):
give; hand; pass; pass on; reach; turn over (place into the hands or custody of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sentence examples:
They entrust the money to them
They entrust them the money
Context examples:
Of Sophy telling us that when she saw Traddles (whom I had entrusted with the licence) asked for it, she almost fainted, having been convinced that he would contrive to lose it, or to have his pocket picked.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He bore no arms save the long and heavy sword which hung at his saddle-bow; but Terlake carried in front of him the high wivern-crested bassinet, Ford the heavy ash spear with swallow-tail pennon, while Alleyne was entrusted with the emblazoned shield.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But when I came to the second part of what had been entrusted to me, said Mr. Littimer, rubbing his hands uneasily, which anybody might have supposed would have been, at all events, appreciated as a kind intention, then the young woman came out in her true colours.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
