What does entrust mean?
Entrust means (transitive) To trust to the care of..
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/ɪnˈtɹʌst/ · verb
(transitive) To trust to the care of..
Can I entrust you with a secret?
He entrusted me his daughter.
He entrusts that task to her.
The study of the main body of Hittite texts was intrusted^([sic]) to the Austrian scholar Hrozny, who in 1915 published a preliminary account of his results[…]
The first step toward finding a way out of this place begins when we take a flamethrower to Newt Gingrich cum Alvin Toffler style laissez-faire futurism, which entrusts our collective fate to the tender mercies of the marketplace, or New Age cyberbole that would have us pin our hopes to a millennial blastoff.
Use entrust when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Entrust means (transitive) To trust to the care of..
Common synonyms include commend, commit, consign, trust.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Can I entrust you with a secret?
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