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Established vs Entrenched - What's the difference?

established | entrenched |

As verbs the difference between established and entrenched

is that established is (establish) while entrenched is (entrench).

As an adjective established

is of a religion, church etc: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.

established

English

Verb

(head)
  • (establish)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 731:
    • Anglicanism did manage to strengthen its position in the southern English American colonies after Charles II's restoration (even in cosmopolitan New York), gaining established status in six out of the eventual thirteen.
  • (Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.

    • Derived terms

    * established church * long-established

    Synonyms

    * (abbreviation)

    entrenched

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (entrench)

    • 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