Word Meanings - INTRUST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deliver to another in trust; to deliver to something in trust; to commit or surrender to another with a certain confidence regarding his care, use, or disposal of it; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or intrust money or goods to

Additional info about word: INTRUST

To deliver to another in trust; to deliver to something in trust; to commit or surrender to another with a certain confidence regarding his care, use, or disposal of it; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or intrust money or goods to a servant. Syn. -- To commit; consign; confide. See Commit.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTRUST)

• Appoint
• Fix
• determine
• instal
• allot
• order
• prescribe
• institute
• employ
• apportion
• apply
• designate
• assign
• intrust
• invest
• ordain
• arrange
• Assign
• Attribute
• allege
• refer
• specify
• consign
• commit
• point out
• allot to
• adduce
• advance
• appoint
• convey

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INTRUST)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Divorce
• disconnect
• dissociate
• dissever

Related words: (words related to INTRUST)

• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• CONSIGNER
  One who consigns. See Consignor.
• DIVORCEABLE
  Capable of being divorced.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• ALLOTTABLE
  Capable of being allotted.
• DISSEVER
  To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info)
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• ALLOTRIOPHAGY
  A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.
• REFER
  1. To carry or send back. Chaucer. 2. Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, infirmation, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar
• ORDAINMENT
  Ordination. Burke.
• INVESTIGATIVE
  Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• DISSOCIATE
  To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance. Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer. A. W. Ward. (more info)
• REFERENTIAL
  Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use. -- Ref`er*en"tial*ly, adv.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• CONSIGNMENT
  The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc. (more info) 1. The act of consigning; consignation.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
• BALLOTER
  One who votes by ballot.
• RECONVEY
  1. To convey back or to the former place; as, to reconvey goods. 2. To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate.
• REAPPORTIONMENT
  A second or a new apportionment.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• CALOTTE; CALLOT
  A close cap without visor or brim. Especially: Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law. Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets. Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. To assume the calotte, to