Usually means: Establish securely and deeply position.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. entrench: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. entrench: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. entrench: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. entrench: Collins English Dictionary
  5. entrench: Vocabulary.com
  6. entrench: Wordnik
  7. entrench: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. entrench: Wiktionary
  9. entrench: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. entrench: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. entrench: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Entrench, entrench: Dictionary.com
  13. entrench: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Entrench (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Entrench: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. entrench: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. entrench: Rhymezone
  18. entrench: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. entrench: Free Dictionary
  20. entrench: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. entrench: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. entrench: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. entrench: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Entrench: Dictionary of Military Architecture

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Definitions from Wiktionary (entrench)

verb:  (literally) To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
verb:  (construction, archaeology) To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
verb:  (military) To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.
verb:  (figuratively)
verb:  To become completely absorbed in and fully accept one's beliefs, even in the face of evidence against it and refusing to be reasoned with.
verb:  To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.
verb:  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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