entrust

Part of speech: verb

To give in trust.

Part of speech: verb

To place in charge. Intrust.

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Usage examples "entrust":

  1. I was a fool to entrust myself to you. - "The Shame of Motley", Raphael Sabatini.
  2. Here they are fortunate; but men are not everything, and I will still draw the moral that a nation is more than blind when it deliberately elects to entrust its defence to an army that is not as perfect as training and discipline can make it, that is not led by practised officers, staff and regimental, and that is not provided with a powerful and efficient artillery. - "Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War", G. F. R. Henderson.
  3. Gabrielle, placing her lute in Sintram's hands, said to him, " Dear friend, so mild and gentle as you now are, I may well dare to entrust to you my tender little darling. - "Sintram and His Companions", Friedrich de la Motte Fouque Commentator: Charlotte M. Yonge.