Meaning & use
entrenched
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Firmly established and very difficult to change, or literally, protected by or positioned within a trench.
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Corruption had become entrenched in the local government over decades.
Soldiers remained entrenched along the ridge for weeks during the siege.
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The figurative sense of an idea or practice being "entrenched" draws directly on the military image of troops dug into defensive trenches.
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