Entrenched is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ENTRENCHED in dictionary:

VERB:
• ENTRENCH, to fix firmly, also INTRENCH
• establish (an attitude, habit, or belief) so firmly that change is very difficult or unlikely
• establish (someone) in a position of great strength or security
• apply extra legal safeguards to (a right guaranteed by legislation)
• establish (a military force) in trenches or other fortified positions
• encroach or trespass on
ADJECTIVE:
• dug in
• established firmly and securely
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to establish firmly

Words related to ENTRENCHED

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How to use ENTRENCHED in a sentence

• Battle after battle was won against foes of reckless daring, carefully entrenched, amply supplied with big guns, and infinitely superior in numbers.
• Here the vital principle of his faithfulness was entrenched as in an impregnable fortress.
• Here he found Ramajee Punt, who had landed a few men, and entrenched himself at about two miles from the nearest fort, with a single four-pounder gun.
• There they made an entrenched camp on the hill of Kronos, established a garrison, and held control over the Olympian hill-country.
• He had entrenched himself strongly in front of Nehavend and was bent on wearing out the patience of the Arabs by a prolonged resistance.
• But on the other hand it is against Boer tradition to attack, especially entrenched positions.
• I was well entrenched, and my rifle got so hot I could hardly hold it.
• The power of multiplication in plants and animals is so great that food or space is sooner or later entrenched upon, and then commences this inevitable struggle for existence.
• In the flare of the house he was surprised to discover Germans entrenched in an old drain on the British side of the river.
• Cecil, feeling as if delivered from a spell, got out of the room, and entrenched herself in her own, where her thoughts became almost unendurable.
• Bradley, save for a few learned quotations, strangely ignored this orthodoxy entrenched behind his back.
• Soon after, the squadron was reformed and the men entrenched themselves under fire.
• The fanciful accounts of Creation put forth by Moses three thousand years before were firmly maintained by the entrenched volunteers and their millions of devotees and followers.
• The Americans showered that hill top with bullets, but the Germans were entrenched.
• He entrenched himself and called for reinforcements.
• Jago de Cuba and entrenched themselves on the northern shore as the advance post of a greater force expected from the mainland.
• Away beyond Bethune one could see the blue hills in which the Germans were strongly entrenched.
• Three-fourths of the French were entrenched along the six miles of North Shore below Quebec, to please Vaudreuil, who, as Governor, had power to order Montcalm.
• With the armaments and the customs of warfare of those days, it was very difficult to force an army to come out of its entrenched camp.
• The courageous Negro, well entrenched in the depths of Granite House, would not allow himself to be surprised.
• It was easy to deceive Josiana, entrenched as she was behind a rampart of pride.
• His division was entrenched on the right bank of the Mosel and beyond the forts, so that it was dark before he passed through the gates.
• Peter retreated before him, and in June was entrenched beyond the Beresina.
• II Isabel slept soundly, the regular habit of healthy years being too firmly entrenched to give way at once.
• The initiative, always a disadvantage when attacking an enemy strongly posted and entrenched, was thus imposed upon Buller.
• The companies on the ridge retired to the crest of the hill after dark and took up an entrenched outpost line for the night.
• The kopje was entrenched and everything made comfortable for the following day.
• Our men had already seen two red lanterns burning at either extremity of this entrenched position.

Similar words containing TRENCH without suffix ed and without prefix en

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