entrust

Etymology

en- + trust

verb

1. (transitive) To trust to the care of.
   The study of the main body of Hittite texts was intrusted to the Austrian scholar Hrozny, who in 1915 published a preliminary account of his results[…] 1920, Carl D. Buck, “Hittite an Indo-European Language?”, in Classical Philology, volume 15, number 2, →DOI, page 185
   The first step toward finding a way out of this place begins when we take a flamethrower to Newt Gingrich cum Alvin Toffler style laissez-faire futurism, which entrusts our collective fate to the tender mercies of the marketplace, or New Age cyberbole that would have us pin our hopes to a millennial blastoff. 2004, Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia, page 1742
   Can I entrust you with a secret?
   He entrusted me his daughter.
   He entrusts that task to her.