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Entrust vs Exonerate - What's the difference?

entrust | exonerate |

As verbs the difference between entrust and exonerate

is that entrust is to trust to the care of while exonerate is to relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).

entrust

English

Alternative forms

* intrust

Verb

(en verb)
  • To trust to the care of.

    • Usage notes

    See usage note for commit.

    Anagrams

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    exonerate

    English

    Verb

    (exonerat)
  • To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
  • (obsolete, reflexive) Of a body of water, to discharge (oneself), empty oneself.
  • *, II.ii.3:
    • I would examine the Caspian Sea, and see where and how it exonerates itself, after it hath taken in Volga, Iaxartes, Oxus, and those great rivers; at the mouth of Obi, or where?
  • To free from an obligation, responsibility or task.
  • To free from accusation or blame.

    • Synonyms

    * (to free from accusation ) acquit English transitive verbs ----