Word Finder - intrenched

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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.

The Monongahela is an older stream, but like the Allegheny, it meanders much, and both rivers flow in deeply intrenched valleys.

Still worse, the factions now intrenched still further on the prerogative.

Cambridge was the site of the camp of the first American army, at the outbreak of the war, and from it went the detachment which intrenched on Bunker's Hill.

Their violence prevented "the pasha," as they called him, from attending the convention summoned to Warsaw on the death of Bathory; but at the subsequent election diet, which met at Warsaw on the 9th of July 1587, he appeared at the head of 6000 veterans and intrenched himself with his partisans in what was called "the Black Camp" in contradistinction to "the General Camp" of the Zborowski.