Meanings
present singular third person entrusts · participle present entrusting · participle past entrusted · past entrusted · alternative intrust
- transitiveTo trust to the care of.
He entrusted me his daughter.
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Can I entrust you with a secret?
He entrusts that task to her.
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 185The 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
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Italic*en
- Proto-Italic*en-
- Latinin-
- Old Frenchen-
- Middle Englishen-
- Englishen-
- Englishtrust
- Englishentrust
Translations
Ancient Greek ἐπιτρέπω
- ἐπιτρέπω (epitrépō)to trust to the care of
Bulgarian поверявам, поверя
- поверявам (poverjavam)to trust to the care of
- поверя (poverja)to trust to the care of
- доверявам (doverjavam)to trust to the care of
- доверя (doverja)to trust to the care of
Catalan confiar
- confiarto trust to the care of
Chinese Mandarin 委託 /委托, 託付 /托付
- 委託 /委托 (wěituō)to trust to the care of
- 託付 /托付 (tuōfù)to trust to the care of
Danish betro
- betroto trust to the care of
Dutch toevertrouwen
- toevertrouwento trust to the care of
Esperanto konfidi, alkonfidi
- konfidito trust to the care of
- alkonfidito trust to the care of
Finnish antaa huostaan, antaa hoidettavaksi
- antaa huostaanto trust to the care of
- antaa hoidettavaksito trust to the care of
- antaa tehtäväksito trust to the care of
French confier
- confierto trust to the care of
German anvertrauen
- anvertrauento trust to the care of
Greek εμπιστεύομαι
- εμπιστεύομαι (empistévomai)to trust to the care of
Hungarian bíz, megbíz
- bízto trust to the care of
- megbízto trust to the care of
Indonesian mempercayakan, menitip
- mempercayakanto trust to the care of
- menitipto trust to the care of
Irish cuir in iontaoibh, lig ar iontaoibh le
- cuir in iontaoibhto trust to the care of
- lig ar iontaoibh leto trust to the care of
Italian confidare
- confidareto trust to the care of
Latin commendō
- commendōto trust to the care of
Latvian uzticēt
- uzticētto trust to the care of
Lithuanian patikėti
- patikėtito trust to the care of
Polish powierzyć
- powierzyćto trust to the care of
Portuguese confiar
- confiarto trust to the care of
Russian доверя́ть, дове́рить
- доверя́ть (doverjátʹ)to trust to the care of
- дове́рить (dovéritʹ)to trust to the care of
Spanish encomendar, confiar
- encomendarto trust to the care of
- confiarto trust to the care of
- encargarto trust to the care of
Swedish anförtro, ombetro
- anförtroto trust to the care of
- ombetroto trust to the care of
- betroto trust to the care of
- förtroto trust to the care of
Turkish emanet etmek
- emanet etmekto trust to the care of
Ukrainian довіря́ти, дові́рити
- довіря́ти (dovirjáty)to trust to the care of
- дові́рити (dovíryty)to trust to the care of
- доруча́ти (doručáty)to trust to the care of
- доручи́ти (doručýty)to trust to the care of
Urdu سَون٘پْنا, سَپُرْد کَرْنا
- سَون٘پْنا (sa͠upnā)to trust to the care of
- سَپُرْد کَرْنا (sapurd karnā)to trust to the care of
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Cite this entry
entrust. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entrust
“entrust.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entrust. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “entrust,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entrust.
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