entrust

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Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English en-
English trust
English entrust

    From en- + trust.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɹʌst/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ʌst

    Verb

    entrust (third-person singular simple present entrusts, present participle entrusting, simple past and past participle entrusted)

    1. (transitive) To trust to the care of.
      Synonyms: commend, commit, consign
      Can I entrust you with a secret?
      He entrusted me his daughter.
      He entrusts that task to her.
      • 1920, Carl D. Buck, “Hittite an Indo-European Language?”, in Classical Philology, volume 15, number 2, →DOI, page 185:
        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 […]
      • 2004, Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia, →ISBN, page 1742:
        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.

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