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endow
[ en-dou ]
verb (used with object)
- to provide with a permanent fund or source of income:
to endow a college.
- to furnish, as with some talent, faculty, or quality; equip:
Nature has endowed her with great ability.
Synonyms: , ,
- Obsolete. to provide with a dower.
verb (used without object)
- (of a life-insurance policy) to become payable; yield its conditions.
endow
/ ɪˈ岹ʊ /
verb
- to provide with or bequeath a source of permanent income
- usually foll by with to provide (with qualities, characteristics, etc)
- obsolete.to provide with a dower
Derived Forms
- ˈǷɱ, noun
Other Word Forms
- ·Ƿ· noun
- ··Ƿ verb (used with object)
- ···Ƿ verb (used with object)
- ܲ··Ƿ·Բ adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of endow1
Example Sentences
Director David Cromer, whose sensibility gravitates between stark and dark, endows the staging with macabre elegance.
Another place Trump has had his eye on is Greenland - which is endowed with the eighth largest reserves of rare earth elements.
Because even the robber barons were not that bad; at least they endowed some libraries and foundations and fellowships and had some idea of wanting to pretend to some sort of cultural capital.
Noted physicist Stephen Hawking, a supporter of the Palestinian cause, participated in an academic boycott of Israel and endowed an astronomy chair at a university in the West Bank.
It was as if talking money, and earning it, would act as a vaccine that endowed our family with immunity against all those nasty lethal airborne pathogens.
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