ENTRUST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entrust mean? 

• ENTRUST (verb)
  The verb ENTRUST has 2 senses:

1. confer a trust upon

2. put into the care or protection of someone

  Familiarity information: ENTRUST used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTRUST (verb)

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

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

commit; confide; entrust; intrust; trust

Context example:

I commit my soul to God

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

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

entrust; leave

Context example:

leave your child in the nurse's care

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

 Context examples 

I handed to him the sealed letter which Mr. Hawkins had entrusted to me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Let me remind you that we came here upon a perfectly definite mission, entrusted to us at the meeting of the Zoological Institute in London.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As long as the prince doth me the honor to entrust this venture to me, it is for me only to give orders; and, by Saint Paul!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The necessity of concealing from her mother and Marianne, what had been entrusted in confidence to herself, though it obliged her to unceasing exertion, was no aggravation of Elinor's distress.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Those to whom the king had entrusted me, observing how ill I was clad, ordered a tailor to come next morning, and take measure for a suit of clothes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

To entrust to another.

(Delegate Action, NCI Thesaurus)

To this, I added the suggestion, that I should give some explanation of his character and history to Mr. Peggotty, who I knew could be relied on; and that to Mr. Peggotty should be quietly entrusted the discretion of advancing another hundred.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. and Mrs. Morland, relying on the discretion of the friends to whom they had already entrusted their daughter, felt no doubt of the propriety of an acquaintance which had been formed under their eye, and sent therefore by return of post their ready consent to her visit in Gloucestershire.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

By my soul! as long as I am seneschal of Aquitaine I will find enough to do in guarding the marches which you have entrusted to me.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This makes my situation different from yours, Professor Challenger, since, so far as I know, you have never been entrusted with any responsible educational work.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)