Instilled vs Entrenched - What's the difference?
instilled | entrenched |
(instill)
To cause a quality to become part of someone's nature.
To pour in (medicine, for example) drop by drop.
(entrench)
(construction, archaeology) To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
(military) To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.
(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, , "
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
To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
As verbs the difference between instilled and entrenched
is that instilled is (instill) while entrenched is (entrench).instilled
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Verb
(head)instill
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Alternative forms
* instil UKVerb
(en verb)- It is important to instill discipline in a child at an early age.
See also
* infuseentrenched
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Verb
(head)entrench
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Verb
(es)- The army entrenched''' its camp, or '''entrenched itself.
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.
- We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children.
- It was this very sword entrenched it.
- His face / Deep scars of thunder had entrenched .