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Intrench

Definition: Intrench

Intrench

Verb

1. Fix firmly or securely.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "intrench" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1692. (references)


Synonym: Intrench

Synonym: entrench (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Intrench

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Defense

Verb: defend, forfend, fend; shield, screen, shroud; engarrison; fend round; (circumscribe); fence, entrench, intrench; guard; (keep safe); guard against; take care of; (vigilance); bear harmless; fend off, keep off, ward off, beat off, beat back; hinder.

Safety

Make safe, render safe; Adjective:; protect; take care of; (care); preserve; cover, screen, shelter, shroud, flank, ward; guard; (defend); secure; (restrain); entrench, intrench, fence round; (circumscribe); house, nestle, ensconce; take charge of.

Transcursion

Encroach, trespass, infringe, trench upon, entrench on, intrench on; strain; stretch a point, strain a point; cross the Rubicon.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Intrench

English words defined with "intrench": Intrenched, Intrenching. (references)
Etymologies containing "intrench": intrenchment. (references)

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Historic Usage: Intrench

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

The measure of property nature has well set by the extent of men's labour and the conveniency of life: no man's labour could subdue, or appropriate all; nor could his enjoyment consume more than a small part; so that it was impossible for any man, this way, to intrench upon the right of another, or acquire to himself a property, to the prejudice of his neighbour, who would still have room for as good, and as large a possession (after the other had taken out his) as before it was appropriated. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translations: Intrench

Language Translations for "intrench"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rrethoj me llogore (entrench). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

укрепявам с окоп, гарантирам (assure, engage, entrench, insure, safeguard, secure, underwrite, warrant), нарушавам (disobey, forswear, infringe, invade, outrage, outstep, poach, trouble, violate). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

περιχαρακώνω. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

védelmi építményeket létesít (entrench), beássa magát (entrench, to entrench, to hole), beás (dig in, entrench). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

intrenchay

   

Russian 

  

нарушать (contravene, disrupt, entrench, infringe, renege, screw up, transgress, trespass against, trouble, upset, violate, violating). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ukopati (bury, dig in, dig into, inhume), okružiti rovovima. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

siperlerle kuşatmak (entrench), siper kazmak (dig a trench, dig in, entrench, trench), sağlama almak (assure, batten, ensure, entrench, insure, make sure, play it safe, secure, skid, underwrite). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Intrench

Derivations

Words beginning with "intrench": intrenched, intrenches, intrenching. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Intrench

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-n-n-r-t"

-1 letter: cithern, cithren, thinner.

-2 letters: cither, cretin, enrich, ethnic, hinter, intern, richen, thrice, tinner, trench.

-3 letters: chert, chine, citer, ethic, inert, inner, inter, ither, nicer, niche, ninth, niter, nitre, recti, renin, retch, tench, thein, their, thine, trice, trine.

-4 letters: cent, chin, chit, cine, cire, cite, etch, etic, heir, hent, hern, hint, hire, inch, itch, nice.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-n-n-r-t"
 

+1 letter: trenching.

 

+2 letters: chuntering, enrichment, incoherent, interchain, intrenched, intrenches, strychnine.

 

+3 letters: christening, enrichments, entrenching, inheritance, interbranch, interchains, interchange, interethnic, intrenching, merchanting, retrenching, strychnines.

 

+4 letters: christenings, disenchanter, encipherment, ethnocentric, incoherently, inheritances, interchained, interchanged, interchanger, interchanges, interchannel, neurasthenic, nonarchitect, synchroneity, technetronic, trenchancies, truncheoning, unchristened.

 

+5 letters: anthropogenic, containership, disenchanters, encipherments, ethnocentrism, hyperfunction, interchaining, interchangers, interchanging, neurasthenics, nonarchitects, nonhysterical, nontheatrical, rechristening, unchlorinated, underclothing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Intrench


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6E 74 72 65 6E 63 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    -.    -    .-.    .    -.    -.-.    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101110 01110100 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#116 &#114 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0074 0072 0065 006E 0063 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4380868471806974

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Historic
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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