intrench
English
Verb
intrench (third-person singular simple present intrenches, present participle intrenching, simple past and past participle intrenched)
- Archaic form of entrench.
- John Locke
- We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children.
- 1836, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England (page 269)
- Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea […]
- John Locke