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entrenchment

[ en-trench-muhnt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the act of entrenching.
an entrenched position.
Usually entrenchments. an earth breastwork or ditch for protection against enemy fire.

entrenchment

/ ɪnˈtrɛntʃmənt /

First recorded in 1580–90; entrench + -ment

You end up with a much longer-term impact of entrenchment of these inequalities that have arisen as part of the pandemic.

Ideological entrenchment in Washington has led us to a completely foreseeable impasse.

There is nothing hypothetical about the increasing entrenchment of the Israeli presence in the West Bank.

How little did she realize the long drawn-out agony that was even then beginning for her sisters in that ill-fated entrenchment!

They carried the intervening entrenchment of the enemy and forced their way into the town.

Gerrans Bay, of course, embodies the name, and so do the remains of the entrenchment or camp at Dingerrein.

Tregonning Hill, close by, is somewhat higher, and its summit has a fine entrenchment with a striking inner vallum.

The entrenchment showed like the rim of a saucer, and over its narrow line peeped the summit of the central tree.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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