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Meaning entrench meaning

What does entrench mean?

entrench

— verb fix firmly or securely — verb (= dig in) occupy a trench or secured area The troops dug in for the night — verb (= impinge) impinge or infringe upon This impinges on my rights as an individual This matter entrenches on other domains

Synonyms entrench synonyms

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entrench English » English

trench intrench impinge fortify encroach dig in trespass infringe barricade violate trouble slur slight root protect offend mortify insult instill injure infract implant hurt encroach upon embattle dike crucify contravene ail aggrieve abuse

Topics entrench topics

What do people use entrench to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Defend
Social behavior Conflict War Military organization

Fort

Conjugation entrench conjugation

How do you conjugate entrench?

entrench · verb

Examples entrench examples

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Movie subtitles

Entrench.
Don't entrench yourselves.
Entrench, send the reconnoitering parties, wait for the partisans to attack.
Entrench, send the reconnoitering parties, wait for the partisans.
It would only entrench me further.
I notice you haven't bothered to entrench or build a fortified perimeter.
You don't have to entrench, but please don't go away.
When the customers and employees leave, block the entrance and entrench.
She chose to entrench inside herself.
Captain feels the need to entrench in a solitary position before letting one fly. I wasn't gonna. Fuck that, dirty.
You need to entrench yourself in a job that has a spine.
The enemy was pushed back and the Danes had time to entrench themselves in Dybboel as if that would be significant.
Have the men entrench here as quickly as possible.
We're leaving for Mount Gunnai where we're going to entrench.
We were supposed to go to Gunnai and entrench there.
To entrench here, only complicated the situation, Fidel.
We'll pretend to attack, then retreat and entrench ourselves in the new building.
So, ambitious Roman politicians had begun to recognize that a way to entrench power was to provide the mass of common citizens in the city with a bread dole.
Captain feels the need to entrench in a solitary position before letting one fly.
It will root entrench.

News and current affairs

But, sadly, the treaty will only entrench postcommunism's corrupt and criminal business practices, not increase trade or prosperity.
They may even entrench corruption by masking its true causes and culprits.
Under his father's tutelage, Zeng Qinghong learned to use spy networks to entrench Communist and personal power.
Preparations for EU entry strongly motivated the eight former communist Central European states to entrench or restore democratic institutions and market economies.
The three Baltic states and Slovenia also want to entrench their recently revived national identities.
Myopic actions on both sides have helped entrench a longer-term pattern of behavior that only makes it harder to move away from today's unsustainable equilibrium.
It is precisely this ambition that sets Iran apart from North Korea: whereas North Korea seeks nuclear weapons capability in order to entrench its own isolation, Iran is aiming for regional dominance and more.
The Jews did not survive extermination only to entrench themselves behind walls of their own making.
Did she destroy the power of vested interests and create a genuine meritocracy, or did she entrench bankers and financiers as the new elite, with disastrous consequences?
The same might be said about joining the EU: if you can only become a member by living up to the standards of the Union, you will never become a member, since you need membership to entrench those standards.
After all, what if the enemies of freedom use elections to entrench their anti-democratic agendas?
After pro-reform forces secured victory in last year's presidential elections, all of the branches of government began cooperating to entrench democracy and the market economy in Ukraine.
Indeed, they have announced their intentions to move forward with conducting a national referendum scheduled for Saturday to approve a new constitution, which they hope will entrench their power for decades to come.
Their big corporations helped entrench racist regimes with notorious contract-labor systems that amounted to little more than slavery.
So, if gender training programs were to piggyback on current income-boosting microfinance and agricultural-support programs, we could undermine norms about gender roles that entrench women's dependence on men or condone domestic violence.
It is still not too late - not quite - to start couching the broader discussion of nuclear energy in language that will inform rather than alarm, and in terms that will nurture well-balanced judgments rather than entrench long-held biases.
The Kibaki administration used this year to entrench power in the hands of a small ethnic Kikuyu clique.

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