Word Finder - entrenching

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To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.

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To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.

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The army entrenched its camp, or entrenched itself.

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To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.

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Senator Cornpone was able to entrench by spending millions on each campaign.

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To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on or upon.

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To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.

His troops were entrenching themselves solidly in face of the invaders both at Helles and at Anzac, so that his antagonists would be obliged to storm lines of earthworks whenever they should attempt to make further progress.

Kuropatkin's intention was to work round the Japanese right on the hills with his eastern wing (Stakelberg), to move his western wing (Bilderling) slowly southwards, entrenching each strip of ground gained, and finally with the centre - i.e.

No attempt was made to entrench the position systematically, but on the left the 2nd and 3rd Corps made some disconnected shelter trenches and gun-pits, while the 4th Corps in the centre began to improve available cover about an hour before the battle began, and the 6th corps on the right, not yet having received any entrenching tools, could do no more than improvise a few loopholes in the walls of the villages of St Privat and Roncourt with such tools as the sappers could obtain from the inhabitants.

Education in township schools has come to be considered inferior, thereby entrenching exclusion.

Army halting and entrenching on the ground it had gained.