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Another word for entrench

Verb

  1. To implant so deeply as to make change nearly impossible

    2. See also:

    move

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Another word for entrench

Verb

  1. To surround

    2. See also:

    surround

    defend

  2. To trespass

    3. See also:

    meddle

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Sentence Examples

  • arguable that the damage took a few more mega years to entrench itself.

  • A political dynamic is created in which the social floor becomes progressively lower and meaner, while those at the top entrench their position.

  • entrench the stability or not.

  • entrench communal inequality.

  • entrench democracy after four decades of dictatorship.

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