Definition of "intrust" [in•trust]

• Variant of entrust. (verb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "For, as he [a husband] is to answer for her [his wife's] misbehavior, the law thought it reasonable to intrust him with this power of restraining her, by domestic chastisement, in the same moderation that a man is allowed to correct his apprentices or children; for whom the master or parent is also liable in some cases to answer. 7"
• "Might as well intrust your 401k to a system of Iraqi Gangstas!"
• "Da oven at myne howse iz tryin tu burn my howse down, so I kannawt leeb an intrust “DUH, men” heer wiffin it."