Usually means: Establishing a strong, defensive position.
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  1. intrenchment: Collins English Dictionary
  2. intrenchment: Vocabulary.com
  3. intrenchment: Wordnik
  4. intrenchment: Wiktionary
  5. Intrenchment, intrenchment: Dictionary.com
  6. Intrenchment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. intrenchment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. intrenchment: Rhymezone
  9. Intrenchment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. intrenchment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. intrenchment: FreeDictionary.org
  12. intrenchment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Intrenchment: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. intrenchment: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Intrenchment)

▸ noun:  Archaic spelling of entrenchment. [The process of entrenching or something which entrenches]

Similar:
entrenchment, encrustation, archaization, reinstitutionalisation, antiquisation, enmeshing, engraffment, incrustation, sedentarisation, enshrinement, more...

Opposite:
dislodgment, displacement, uprooting, removal

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Similar:
entrenchment, encrustation, archaization, reinstitutionalisation, antiquisation, enmeshing, engraffment, incrustation, sedentarisation, enshrinement, more...

Opposite:
dislodgment, displacement, uprooting, removal



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