entrust Definition
en·trust (en trust′, in-)
transitive verb
- to charge or invest with a trust or duty entrust a lawyer with records
- to assign the care of; turn over for safekeeping entrust the key to me
entrust Related Forms
en·trust′·ment noun
entrust Synonyms
entrust
v.
entrust Usage Examples
Object
- mission: It is a mission entrusted to me by the people.
- judgment: According to John 5:22, the Father judges no one but has entrusted all judgment to the Son.
- task: He rattles off a list of tasks entrusted to him during his tenure.
- responsibility: The responsibility entrusted to all of us at our baptism is to live a God centered life.
- duty: To him, indeed, has been entrusted the duty of strengthening his brethren.
- person: He is the person entrusted by Parliament with the task.
Preposition: with
- firearm: This section offers guidance on the issues of a person's fitness to be entrusted with a firearm.
- gospel: Because we've been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak.
- task: However, 5 Officers guarding the bridge, who were entrusted with this task, did not carry out these orders.
- mission: Imperial Spy Femke, a gifted and resourceful young spy, is entrusted with a vital foreign mission by the Emperor.
- responsibility: Now, having been entrusted with this most sacred responsibility, how could she betray that trust by saying nothing?
- duty: You will be entrusted with certain vital duties for which reasonable fitness and a knowledge of firearms is necessary.
Infinitive complement
- carry: As an agency of the Bishops ' Conference they have been entrusted to carry out the social mission of the Church.
- manage: This would be the case with any funds they are entrusted to manage, including grants or public donations.
Modifying Another Word
- often: Scaliger often entrusted his letters for German scholars to merchants traveling twice a year to the famous Bookfair in Frankfurt.
- then: Then entrust yourself to your faithful Savior who is working for your good, even as He did with that woman.
- even: I was even entrusted with the car of my own intestines which I gently held to prevent them slipping off the table.
- now: TRUTH the truth of the Gospel, of Jesus, of Scripture is now entrusted to us in this generation.
- only: Indeed many professional users will only entrust their valuable recordings to HHB media.
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