From en- + trust.
entrust (third-person singular simple present entrusts, present participle entrusting, simple past and past participle entrusted)
- (transitive) To trust to the care of.
Can I entrust you with a secret?
He entrusted me his daughter.
He entrusts that task to her.
1920, Carl D. Buck, “Hittite an Indo-European Language?”, in Classical Philology, volume 15, number 2, →DOI, page 185: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 […]
2004, Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia, →ISBN, page 1742:The 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.
To trust to the care of
- Bulgarian: поверявам (bg) (poverjavam)
- Catalan: confiar (ca)
- Danish: betro
- Dutch: toevertrouwen (nl)
- Esperanto: konfidi (eo), alkonfidi
- Finnish: antaa huostaan, antaa hoidettavaksi, antaa tehtäväksi
- French: confier (fr)
- German: anvertrauen (de)
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌾𐌰𐌽 (galaubjan)
- Greek:
- Ancient Greek: ἐπιτρέπω (epitrépō)
- Hungarian: bíz (hu), megbíz (hu)
- Ido: konfidar (io)
- Indonesian: mempercayakan (to entrust someone to do something), menitip (id) (to leave something to somebody)
- Irish: cuir in iontaoibh, lig ar iontaoibh le
- Old Irish: ad·noí
- Italian: confidare (it)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: سپاردن (spardin)
- Latin: commendō
- Latvian: uzticēt
- Lithuanian: patikėti
- Middle English: recomaunden, comaunden, recommenden
- Ottoman Turkish: اینانمق (inanmak)
- Polish: powierzyć (pl)
- Portuguese: confiar (pt)
- Russian: доверя́ть (ru) impf (doverjátʹ), дове́рить (ru) pf (dovéritʹ)
- Spanish: encomendar (es), confiar (es)
- Swedish: anförtro (sv), ombetro, betro, förtro
- Telugu: ఒప్పగించు (te) (oppagiñcu)
- Turkish: emanet etmek (tr)
- Ukrainian: довіря́ти impf (dovirjáty), дові́рити pf (dovíryty), доруча́ти impf (doručáty), доручи́ти pf (doručýty)
- Urdu: سَون٘پْنا (sa͠upnā), سَپُرْد کَرْنا (sapurd karnā)
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