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  1. kiinnittää, juurruttaa, vaikuttaa, tunkeutua, loukata, hankaloittaa, käyttää väärin, käyttää hyväksi.

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loukata puhekieltä To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
puhekieltä To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.

The army entrenched its camp, or entrenched itself.

puhekieltä To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.
Senator Cornpone was able to entrench by spending millions on each campaign.
2013 September 28, w:Kenan Malik|Kenan Malik, "http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/opinion/sunday/london-is-special-but-not-that-special.html?ref=opinion 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.
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
We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children.
To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
Shakespeare
It was this very sword entrenched it.
Milton
His face / Deep scars of thunder had entrenched.

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