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Meaning of "entrench" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ENTRENCH

entrench  [ɪnˈtrɛntʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENTRENCH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Entrench is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb entrench in English.

WHAT DOES ENTRENCH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of entrench in the English dictionary

The first definition of entrench in the dictionary is to construct by digging trenches around it. Other definition of entrench is to fix or establish firmly, esp so as to prevent removal or change. Entrench is also to trespass or encroach; infringe.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO ENTRENCH

PRESENT

Present
I entrench
you entrench
he/she/it entrenches
we entrench
you entrench
they entrench
Present continuous
I am entrenching
you are entrenching
he/she/it is entrenching
we are entrenching
you are entrenching
they are entrenching
Present perfect
I have entrenched
you have entrenched
he/she/it has entrenched
we have entrenched
you have entrenched
they have entrenched
Present perfect continuous
I have been entrenching
you have been entrenching
he/she/it has been entrenching
we have been entrenching
you have been entrenching
they have been entrenching
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I entrenched
you entrenched
he/she/it entrenched
we entrenched
you entrenched
they entrenched
Past continuous
I was entrenching
you were entrenching
he/she/it was entrenching
we were entrenching
you were entrenching
they were entrenching
Past perfect
I had entrenched
you had entrenched
he/she/it had entrenched
we had entrenched
you had entrenched
they had entrenched
Past perfect continuous
I had been entrenching
you had been entrenching
he/she/it had been entrenching
we had been entrenching
you had been entrenching
they had been entrenching
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will entrench
you will entrench
he/she/it will entrench
we will entrench
you will entrench
they will entrench
Future continuous
I will be entrenching
you will be entrenching
he/she/it will be entrenching
we will be entrenching
you will be entrenching
they will be entrenching
Future perfect
I will have entrenched
you will have entrenched
he/she/it will have entrenched
we will have entrenched
you will have entrenched
they will have entrenched
Future perfect continuous
I will have been entrenching
you will have been entrenching
he/she/it will have been entrenching
we will have been entrenching
you will have been entrenching
they will have been entrenching
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would entrench
you would entrench
he/she/it would entrench
we would entrench
you would entrench
they would entrench
Conditional continuous
I would be entrenching
you would be entrenching
he/she/it would be entrenching
we would be entrenching
you would be entrenching
they would be entrenching
Conditional perfect
I would have entrench
you would have entrench
he/she/it would have entrench
we would have entrench
you would have entrench
they would have entrench
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been entrenching
you would have been entrenching
he/she/it would have been entrenching
we would have been entrenching
you would have been entrenching
they would have been entrenching
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you entrench
we let´s entrench
you entrench
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to entrench
Past participle
entrenched
Present Participle
entrenching
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ENTRENCH


alebench
ˈeɪlˌbɛntʃ
bench
bɛntʃ
blench
blɛntʃ
clench
klɛntʃ
Dench
dɛntʃ
drench
drɛntʃ
French
frɛntʃ
indrench
ɪnˈdrɛntʃ
intrench
ɪnˈtrɛntʃ
kench
kɛntʃ
quench
kwɛntʃ
retrench
rɪˈtrɛntʃ
stench
stɛntʃ
Swiss-French
ˌswɪsˈfrɛntʃ
tench
tɛntʃ
trench
trɛntʃ
unclench
ʌnˈklɛntʃ
wench
wɛntʃ
workbench
ˈwɜːkˌbɛntʃ
wrench
rɛntʃ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENTRENCH

entreasure
entreat
entreatable
entreaties
entreating
entreatingly
entreative
entreaty
entrechat
entremets
entrenched
entrencher
entrenchment
entrepreneur
entrepreneurial
entrepreneurship
entrepreneuse
entresol
entrez

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENTRENCH

Allen wrench
Anglo-French
bedrench
Canadian French
hex key wrench
Law French
lug wrench
Middle French
monkey wrench
Norman French
oceanic trench
Old French
Old North French
pin wrench
slit trench
socket wrench
spanner wrench
Stillson wrench
the bench
the French
torque wrench

Synonyms and antonyms of entrench in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ENTRENCH»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «entrench» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of entrench

Translation of «entrench» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ENTRENCH

Find out the translation of entrench to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of entrench from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «entrench» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

巩固
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

consolidar
570 millions of speakers

English

entrench
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मोरचा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ترسيخ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

закрепить
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

entranhar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পরিখা দ্বারা সুরক্ষিত করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

enraciner
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Entrench
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zementieren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

定着させる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

확고히 하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Enteni
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

núp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மேலும் ஆழமாக்கும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फरहार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sağlama almak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

consolidare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

utrwalenia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

закріпити
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

consfinți
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περιχαρακώσει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verskans
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

befästa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forskanse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of entrench

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENTRENCH»

The term «entrench» is normally little used and occupies the 109.053 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «entrench».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ENTRENCH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «entrench» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «entrench» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about entrench

EXAMPLES

3 QUOTES WITH «ENTRENCH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word entrench.
1
Hugh Evans
The Global Poverty Project's mission is to stand up for the world's poorest people. We fight for the full funding of Millennium Development Goals and advocate meaningful change to government and corporate policies that block progress and entrench injustice.
2
Patricia Sun
Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
3
Jim Walsh
With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENTRENCH»

Discover the use of entrench in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to entrench and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Handbook of Quantitative Finance and Risk Management
Table 56.2 Regressions of capital structure levels 1 2 3 CEODUAL 0:0185 .4:26/ TENURE 0:0026 .3:17/ OUTDIR 0.0413 (3.08) INSTIOWN 0.0853 0.0653 (5.23) ( 3.41) ENTRENCH 0:0249 0:01708 .6:84/ .3:95/ ENTRENCH FCF 0:0147 .2:23/ ...
Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, 2010
2
Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World
One choice will be upstream from a second if the fact that we entrench the first means that we entrench the second, but not vice versa. If we entrench your freedom to tell me what you think, then we entrench your freedom to tell me about your ...
Philip Pettit, 2014
3
Originalism and the Good Constitution
Under a majority entrenchment rule, legislators (with or without the support of citizens) are likely to indulge their partisan preferences because they can entrench their parties' interests without significant constraint.9 Indeed, partisanship may ...
John O. McGinnis, Michael B. Rappaport, 2013
4
Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard)
will be very big because we will seek to entrench everything. We do not have to entrench everything in the Constitution. It makes no legal sense or otherwise. The American Constitution is just a small document. We even need a smaller ...
5
Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard)
will be very big because we will seek to entrench everything. We do not have to entrench everything in the Constitution. It makes no legal sense or otherwise. The American Constitution is just a small document. We even need a smaller ...
6
The Constitution of New South Wales
If there had been a desire to expand the powers of the States to entrench laws, then broader terminology could have been used in the Australia Acts 1986. For example, s 26 of the Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988 (Cth ) ...
Anne Twomey, 2004
7
The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare: ...
Beauregard, who took command at Shiloh with the death of Johnston, did not entrench after the toll of the first day's fighting. He had entrenched at the First Battle of Bull Run, and his writings emphasized the role of tactical entrenchments.
Edward Hagerman, 1992
8
The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, ...
He will entrench a post at Torres Vedras for 5000 men. He will examine the road from Torres Vedras to Cabeca de Montachique ; and fix upon the spots, which to break up, might stop or delay the enemy ; and if there should be advantageous ...
Arthur Wellesley of Wellington, John Gurwood, 1844
9
The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, ...
He will also examine and report upon the road from Alemquer to Sobra'l de Monte agrago. ' 6th. He will entrench a post at Torres Vedras for 5000 men. He will examine the road from Torres Vedras to Ca— beça de Montachique; and fix upon ...
Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, John Gurwood, 1838
10
Gender and Economic Growth in Uganda: Unleashing the Power ...
Represent. an. Opportunity. to. Entrench. Gender. Issues. This assessment has made a number of recommendations for legal and administrative reforms for investment that have a gender perspective. Under the Poverty Eradication Action Plan ...
Amanda Ellis, Claire Manuel, C. Mark Blackden, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENTRENCH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term entrench is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Vote buying will entrench poverty — Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom
A founder member of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has cautioned that if not checked, the strategy of vote ... «Graphic Online, Jul 15»
2
Florida Supreme Court Throws Out Congressional Map, Orders …
... of one political party and entrench a rival party in power,'" the opinion says, quoting the U.S. Supreme Court's opinion in the Arizona case. «National Journal, Jul 15»
3
Having a job transformed my life. More companies have to help …
With high unemployment comes a whole raft of other problems: social and economic hardship, and a range of health issues that entrench ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
President Erdogan Is Accused of Stalling as Turks Await a Government
He added, “A partnership with another conservative party will further entrench the conservatism of the A.K.P. and will help prop up the crony ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
5
The Digital Single Market and A Duty of Care: Preserving the …
High regulatory costs entrench incumbents. This could disproportionately affect European companies, as none of the top 15 global Internet ... «Disruptive Competition Project, Jul 15»
6
'No wrong in SACP holding state posts'
He also took a swipe at the EFF, saying it was using the plight of the families of slain Marikana miners to entrench hatred for the ANC. «Independent Online, Jul 15»
7
Next year's Fourth of July gala already in the works
... barbecue and fireworks, after the first one over the weekend attracted a larger-than-anticipated crowd, helping to entrench the new tradition. «Yuma Sun, Jul 15»
8
Music heals Lection
... he has been compared to HHP a couple of times to such an extent that he needed to establish his voice more to entrench his own identity. «Johannesburg Sunday World, Jul 15»
9
'Significant room' for improvement for Singapore's ageing data centres
Telin Singapore CEO Septika Noegraheni Widyasrini told Channel NewsAsia in an email that locating its data centre at DCP will “entrench the ... «Channel News Asia, Jul 15»
10
Talking on the couch - how Brand inc made Nashua's new …
During its journey, it connected people, strengthened relationships and helped entrench a brand further into the hearts and minds of its ... «Bizcommunity.com, Jul 15»

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