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third-person singular simple present entrusts, present participle entrusting, simple past and past participle entrusted
(transitive) To trust to the care of. quotations examples
The study of the main body of Hittite texts was intrusted[sic] to the Austrian scholar Hrozny, who in 1915 published a preliminary account of his results […]
1920, Carl D. Buck, “Hittite an Indo-European Language?”, in Classical Philology, volume 15, number 2, page 185
The first step toward finding a way out of this place begins when we take a flamethrower to Newt Gingrich cum Alvin Toffler style laissez-faire futurism, which entrusts our collective fate to the tender mercies of the marketplace, or New Age cyberbole that would have us pin our hopes to a millennial blastoff.
2004, Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia, page 1742