INTRUST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intrust mean? 

• INTRUST (verb)
  The verb INTRUST has 1 sense:

1. confer a trust upon

  Familiarity information: INTRUST used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTRUST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they intrust    ... he / she / it intrusts   
Past simple: intrusted   
Past participle: intrusted   
-ing form: intrusting   

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 "intrust" 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 "intrust"):

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 intrust him to write the letter

 Context examples 

Lord Leverstoke, the Earl of Blackwater, Sir Cathcart Soames—they all have intrusted their sons to me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He poured his soul into stories, articles, and poems, and intrusted them to the machine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission which had been intrusted to me.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And yet it would be the blackest treachery to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted to me.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Let the reader add, to complete the picture, refined features; a complexion, if pale, clear; and a stately air and carriage, and he will have, at least, as clearly as words can give it, a correct idea of the exterior of Miss Temple—Maria Temple, as I afterwards saw the name written in a prayer-book intrusted to me to carry to church.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Several wealthy and benevolent individuals in the county subscribed largely for the erection of a more convenient building in a better situation; new regulations were made; improvements in diet and clothing introduced; the funds of the school were intrusted to the management of a committee.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As to her money, she first secreted it in odd corners, wrapped in a rag or an old curl-paper; but some of these hoards having been discovered by the housemaid, Eliza, fearful of one day losing her valued treasure, consented to intrust it to her mother, at a usurious rate of interest—fifty or sixty per cent.; which interest she exacted every quarter, keeping her accounts in a little book with anxious accuracy.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)