They entrusted all their children to me—I often carried little Hugh about—I took him up to the Funeral of Queen Victoria, and held him in my arms above the crowd.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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— to confer a trust on
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— to give someone responsibility for an important job or activity
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— If you entrust something important to someone or entrust them with it, you make them responsible for looking after it or dealing with it.
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1 use of ‘entrusted’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster