ENTRUST

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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

Credits

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.