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Definition of Entrenched
1. Adjective. Dug in.
2. Adjective. Established firmly and securely. "The entrenched power of the nobility"
Definition of Entrenched
1. Verb. (past of entrench) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Entrenched
1. entrench [v] - See also: entrench
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entrenched
Literary usage of Entrenched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander Kinglake (1877)
"XIII. what the But, so far as concerned the power of the small had was a garrison
then occupying Sebastopol to withstand •entrenched a determined assault. ..."
2. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"The meanders are thus entrenched. Where a stream has entrenched meanders, ...
Plate XIV shows the entrenched meanders of the Conodoguinet River in ..."
3. The Conduct of War: A Short Treatise on Its Most Important Branches and by Colmar Goltz, George Francis Leverson (1908)
"The secure support of hoth wings is nearly always wanting, and the entrenched
line only forms a piece of the front, just where we purpose to have a weak ..."
4. On War by Carl von Clausewitz, James John Graham, Frederic Natusch Maude (1908)
"CHAPTER X ATTACK OF AN entrenched CAMP IT was for a time the fashion to speak
with contempt of entrenchments and their utility. ..."
5. History of the War in the Peninsula, and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1851)
"SOULT at first designed to leave part of his forces in the entrenched camp of
Bayonne, and take a flanking position behind the Nive, half-way between ..."
6. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"AN EVENING IN RICHMOND DURING THE WAR OP THE REBELLION AT A TIME WHEN THE NORTHERN
FORCES WERE entrenched BEFORE THE CITY AND ENDEAVORING BY ALL POSSIBLE ..."
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