intrust
Americanverb (used with object)
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What you told me about Jeths intrust made good readin.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
I like you: there is no one in the world to whom I would so readily intrust the happiness of Florence.
From A Life's Secret A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood
"If you will intrust me with the key of your valise, I will bring them over with me to-morrow."
From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
I smiled; I sacrificed the half-sovereign and let him go, for he is not exactly the person to whom it was advisable to intrust all the secrets relating to the Honorable Miss Snape.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
As John Marshall was later to say of this new Constitution, “The sword and the purse, all the external relations, and no inconsiderable portion of the industry of the nation are intrusted to its Government.”
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2012
The part was intrusted to one Horace Braham.
From Time Magazine Archive
As two discharged doughboys intrusted with a dead pal's little girl, they try to find the grandparents named Smith.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three men, namely M. Kaganovitch, known as Stalin's right hand, Jarovski, and Enukidze, secretary of the central executive committee, were intrusted with carrying out this scheme.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the investiture, they also were ushered into the presence; but, alas, the gifts intrusted to them and their whole substance were already consumed.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
Imagine present-day Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty intrusting a ship of the British navy to civilian command.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
He might have accepted the suggestion of the captain of a French frigate then at the Ile d'Aix, who begged Napoleon to take the chance of intrusting himself to him.
From Napoleon's Young Neighbor by Helen Leah Reed
He believes that, by intrusting the matter to a fellow countryman, he will get his boy back again.
From The Blue Lights A Detective Story by Frederic Arnold Kummer
“Do you remember intrusting Mr Ayling with some goods about that time to take up-country?”
From From Veldt Camp Fires by H.A. Bryden
As a well-known critic remarked in Macmillan—"This volume is one more illustration of the folly of intrusting the composition of biography to persons who have only the wholly irrelevant claim of intimate friendship."
From Harriet Martineau by Florence Fenwick Miller
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