ENTRUSTS Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

entrusts

verb

variants also intrusts

present tense third-person singular of entrust

as in tasks

to give a task, duty, or responsibility to we entrusted our financial adviser with the investment of all of our savings

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as in leaves

to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another we entrusted our pets to the care of our neighbor while we went on vacation

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Recent Examples of entrusts The host of the massacre is the powerful tycoon Chester Danforth (filmmaker David Cronenberg), a hotel and casino impresario, who entrusts the actual event planning to his adult children, twins Ursula and Titus (Sarah Michelle Gellar and Shawn Hatosy). —

Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026 The Constitution entrusts Congress with the authority to declare war, ensuring that matters of armed conflict are subject to careful deliberations and democratic accountability. —

Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 28 Feb. 2026 The crown jewel of the Constitution entrusts the war power exclusively to Congress because of the propensity of the executive branch for unprovoked aggression to aggrandize power. —

Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 4 Jan. 2026 In the absence of her evil overlords, does Glinda live up to the task Elphaba entrusts her with? —

Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 22 Nov. 2025 Kalshi maintains it is protected by federal law, which entrusts the Commodity Futures Trading Commission with exclusive jurisdiction over commodities and futures exchanges. —

Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 28 Oct. 2025 Global markets rely on the Fed being insulated from political pressure, and our market entrusts the Fed with containing inflation; if the Fed's independence is lost, the way its decisions are interpreted changes, and the individual decisions that comprise our market change as well. —

Isaac Saul, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025 But, due to his effectiveness, the cartel entrusts him with larger and even more dangerous shipments. —

Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025 Kingsley will play Robert Dinwiddie, the strong-willed Governor of Virginia who entrusts the young Washington with his first command. —

Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025

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The memo now tasks those offices with conducting toxicity assessments and brings an end to the program that has powered the EPA’s efforts to protect people from harmful chemicals.

— Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 1 May 2026
The second episode of Euphoria’s third season finds Rue basking in the glow of God’s favor and settling into her new life working for the strip-club proprietor Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), who tasks her with scooping pig slop and covering up evidence of a dancer’s accidental overdose.

— Zoe Papelis, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026