entrust
/ɪnˈtɹʌst/ verb C1- To trust to the care of. · Can I entrust you with a secret?· He entrusted me his daughter.
He/she/it entrusts · Past entrusted · Past participle entrusted · -ing form entrusting
Verb forms
- Base form
- entrust
- He/she/it
- entrusts
- Past
- entrusted
- Past participle
- entrusted
- -ing form
- entrusting
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Tomorrow morning I start for Paris; four days to go, and the same to return, with one day to discharge the commission entrusted to me, is all the time I shall be absent.
You have not hesitated to entrust your heads to a man, whom no one could employ to make even the shoes for their feet.”
The monumental task of rectifying this catastrophic sanitation failure was entrusted to Joseph Bazalgette, a remarkably visionary and resilient civil engineer of the Victorian era.
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