The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intrench \In*trench"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intrenched; p. pr. & vb. n. Intrenching.]
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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. 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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of intrench English)
Usage examples of "intrenching".
Caesar, hoping to surprise this legion, and anxious to repair the loss sustained that day, left two cohorts employed in the works to make an appearance of intrenching himself, and by a different route, as privately as he could, with his other cohorts amounting to thirty-three, among which was the ninth legion, which had lost so many centurions, and whose privates were greatly reduced in number, he marched in two lines against Pompey's legion and his lesser camp.
They had not the strength to address their thanks to the King, who himself cut short their solemn reverence by intrenching himself suddenly behind the arm-chair.