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Entrench vs Solidify - What's the difference?

entrench | solidify |

As verbs the difference between entrench and solidify

is that entrench is to dig or excavate a trench; to trench while solidify is to make solid; convert into a solid body.

entrench

English

Verb

(es)
  • (construction, archaeology) To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
  • (military) To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.
  • The army entrenched''' its camp, or '''entrenched itself.
  • (figuratively) To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.
  • * Senator Cornpone was able to entrench by spending millions on each campaign.
  • * 2013 September 28, , " London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
  • For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.
  • To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on'' or ''upon .
  • * John Locke
  • We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children.
  • To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
  • * Shakespeare
  • It was this very sword entrenched it.
  • * Milton
  • His face / Deep scars of thunder had entrenched .

    Synonyms

    * (dig) trench * (surround with a trench) dig in * consolidate

    solidify

    English

    Verb

  • To make solid; convert into a solid body.
  • To concentrate; consolidate.
  • To become solid; to freeze, set.
  • Derived terms

    * solidifiable * solidification * solidifier

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