Crossword-Solution: ENTRENCH 8 letters, 41 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Entrench v. t. See Intrench.

We have 41 clues for the answer “ENTRENCH”

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Establish or fix firmly 1 answer
occupy a trench or secured area 1 answer
The troops dug in for the night 1 answer
Take a defensive position 1 answer
Surround and fortify. 1 answer
SURROUND with trench (fig.) 1 answer
Fortify with ditch 1 answer
Fix or establish firmly 1 answer
FORTIFY with trench (fig.) 1 answer
Establish in a strong position. 1 answer
Dig in solidly 1 answer
Root firmly 2 answers
Firmly implant 3 answers
Plant firmly 4 answers
Firmly establish 4 answers
establish firmly 9 answers
Dig in 12 answers
Ingrain 14 answers
Bog down 15 answers
MAKE position secure 20 answers
infix 21 answers
infringe 25 answers
Encroach 29 answers
Stabilize 35 answers
stabilise 39 answers
Embed 40 answers
Implant 43 answers
Anchor 50 answers
MAKE less flexible 53 answers
MAKE firm 54 answers
Lodge 54 answers
invade 55 answers
Ensconce 55 answers
Root 57 answers
Intrude 58 answers
Found 62 answers
make fast 65 answers
Fortify 65 answers
buttress 66 answers
Ground 80 answers
Fix 91 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ENTRENCH (5)

What appears to be maneuvers that should embarrass a university administration only serve to entrench it even more.
Wild Justice Ruth M. Sprague 1994
Wherefore, missing of the help that he expected from them, and finding his army warmly attended with the stones that the slingers did sling, (for that I will say for the captains, that considering the weakness that yet was upon them by reason of the long sickness that had annoyed the town of Mansoul, they did gallantly behave themselves,) he was forced to make some retreat from Mansoul, and to entrench himself and his men in the field without the reach of the slings of the town.
The Holy War made by Shaddai upon Diabolus John Bunyan 2013
Notwithstanding the enemy's superiority, this intrepid general even approached the bridge of Dessau, and ventured to entrench himself in presence of the imperial lines.
The History of the Thirty Years' War Friedrich Schiller 1996
Scarcely had this officer time to entrench himself on the opposite bank, when he was attacked by 14 squadrons of Spanish dragoons and cuirassiers.
The History of the Thirty Years' War Friedrich Schiller 1996
Horry proceeded to Sand Hill, where, finding himself in good quarters, among some rich and friendly Whigs, living well on their supplies, he proceeded to entrench himself in a regular redoubt.
The Life of Francis Marion William Gilmore Simms 1997

Quotes with ENTRENCH (3)

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its) — Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world — a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious — surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of …
Walt Whitman Complete Prose Works
There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.
John le Carre Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.
Joan Kirner
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Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 16 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).