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# entrust

«entrust» in Mova's school dictionary: **To give someone a job, thing or person to look after…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (entrust, entrusts, entrusted, entrusting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To give someone a job, thing or person to look after because you trust them: «She entrusted me with her keys.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrust/#m1)

2) (church, Bible) Christians «entrust» themselves or the dead to God, meaning they put them into God's care. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrust/#m2)

3) To entrust something to someone's ear is to say it to them quietly, in secret. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrust/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories a king entrusts a secret message to a brave messenger; in school a teacher entrusts the class pet to a pupil for the holidays. In funerals people pray «we entrust our sister to God's mercy». Phrases: «entrust somebody with something», «entrust something to somebody».

### examples

- The teacher entrusted me with the class hamster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrust/#x1)
- The king entrusted the secret to his best knight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrust/#x2)
- Parents entrust their children to the school each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrust/#x3)
- She entrusted her money to the bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrust/#x4)
- In the parable, the master entrusted his gold to his servants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrust/#x5)
- We entrust our grandmother to God's loving care. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrust/#x6)

### note

Regular verb. Two patterns: «entrust someone WITH something» or «entrust something TO someone». Formal; in everyday speech people say «trust someone with». Also spelled intrust (rare, old).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «entrust» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrust/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.