Word Meanings - INTRENCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon. It was this very sword intrenched it. Shak. His face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched. Milton. 2. To surround with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a

Additional info about word: INTRENCH

1. To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon. It was this very sword intrenched it. Shak. His face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched. Milton. 2. To surround with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a ditch and parapet; as, the army intrenched their camp, or intrenched itself. "In the suburbs close intrenched." Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTRENCH)

• Fortify
• Strengthen
• confirm
• corroborate
• garrison
• brace
• intrench

Related words: (words related to INTRENCH)

• INTRENCHANT
  Not to be gashed or marked with furrows. As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. Shak.
• STRENGTHENING
  That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.
• CONFIRMEDLY
  With confirmation.
• CONFIRMEE
  One to whom anuthing is confirmed.
• STRENGTHENER
  One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple.
• BRACELET
  1. An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls. 2. A piece of defensive armor for the arm. Johnson.
• INTRENCH
  1. To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon. It was this very sword intrenched it. Shak. His face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched. Milton. 2. To surround with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a
• FORTIFY
  1. To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack. Timidity was fortified by pride. Gibbon. Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution. Sir W. Scott. 2. To strengthen
• CONFIRMEDNESS
  A fixed state.
• CONFIRMER
  One who, or that which, confirms, establishes, or ratifies; one who corroborates. Shak.
• BRACE
  A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion
• CORROBORATE
  p. of corroborare to corroborate; cor- + roborare to strengthen, 1. To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen. As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby. I. Watts.
• CONFIRM
  To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3. Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament. Hammond. Syn. -- To strengthen; corroborate; substantiate; establish; fix; ratify; settle;
• CONFIRMABLE
  That may be confirmed.
• CONFIRMATION
  A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc. This ordinance is called confirmation, because
• CONFIRMATORY
  Serving to confirm; corroborative. A fact confirmatory of the conclusion. I. Taylor. 2. Pertaining to the rite of confirmation. Compton.
• CONFIRMATIVE
  Tending confirm or establish. Sherwood. -- Con*firm"a*tive*ly, adv.
• BRACER
  1. That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage. 2. A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart. Chaucer. 3. A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to
• GARRISON
  A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town. A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security. In garrison, in the condition of a garrison; doing duty in a fort or as one of a garrison.
• CONFIRMANCE
  Confirmation.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• COUNTER BRACE
  The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
• OVERGARRISON
  To garrison to excess.
• VAMBRACE
  The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
• VANTBRACE; VANTBRASS
  Armor for the arm; vambrace. Milton. (more info) Armor)
• EMBRACEOR
  One guilty of embracery.
• EMBRACERY
  An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.
• EMBRACE
  To fasten on, as armor. Spenser.
• IMBRACERY
  Embracery.
• UNBRACE
  To free from tension; to relax; to loose; as, to unbrace a drum; to unbrace the nerves. Spenser.
• ENGARRISON
  To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison. Bp. Hall.