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entrust en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɪnˈtɹʌst/

Etymology

Etymology tree 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.

Meanings

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

Forms

Deriveds

entrustee · re-entrust · entrustment

Synonyms

commit · commend · consign

Translations (55)

bg поверявам (to trust to the care of) · pt confiar (to trust to the care of) · ota اینانمق (to trust to the care of) · ur سَون٘پْنا (to trust to the care of) · da betro (to trust to the care of) · sv anförtro (to trust to the care of) · uk доручи́ти (to trust to the care of) · el εμπιστεύομαι (to trust to the care of) · de anvertrauen (to trust to the care of) · bg доверя (to trust to the care of) · uk довіря́ти (to trust to the care of) · uk доруча́ти (to trust to the care of) · pl powierzyć (to trust to the care of) · grc ἐπιτρέπω (to trust to the care of) · ga cuir in iontaoibh (to trust to the care of) · bg доверявам (to trust to the care of) · enm recomaunden (to trust to the care of) · it confidare (to trust to the care of) · te ఒప్పగించు (to trust to the care of) · got 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌾𐌰𐌽 (to trust to the care of) · es encargar (to trust to the care of) · ga lig ar iontaoibh le (to trust to the care of) · la commendō (to trust to the care of) · id mempercayakan (to trust to the care of) · ca confiar (to trust to the care of) · nl toevertrouwen (to trust to the care of) · enm comaunden (to trust to the care of) · eo konfidi (to trust to the care of) · fi antaa tehtäväksi (to trust to the care of) · lt patikėti (to trust to the care of) · sv betro (to trust to the care of) · eo alkonfidi (to trust to the care of) · fi antaa huostaan (to trust to the care of) · ru доверя́ть (to trust to the care of) · es encomendar (to trust to the care of) · cmn 託付 /托付 (to trust to the care of) · hu megbíz (to trust to the care of) · es confiar (to trust to the care of) · sga ad·noí (to trust to the care of) · fr confier (to trust to the care of) · cmn 委託 /委托 (to trust to the care of) · ur سَپُرْد کَرْنا (to trust to the care of) · ru дове́рить (to trust to the care of) · uk дові́рити (to trust to the care of) · fi antaa hoidettavaksi (to trust to the care of) · io konfidar (to trust to the care of) · bg поверя (to trust to the care of) · lv uzticēt (to trust to the care of) · hu bíz (to trust to the care of) · enm recommenden (to trust to the care of) · id menitip (to trust to the care of) · tr emanet etmek (to trust to the care of) · sv ombetro (to trust to the care of) · sv förtro (to trust to the care of) · ckb سپاردن (to trust to the care of)