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endowed

[ en-doud ]

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adjective

supported by a permanent fund or source of income:
A cooperative owned by 50 families set up the endowed scholarship in 2000.
naturally possessing a certain quality, talent, physical feature, or other advantage, especially a sexually attractive feature:
She bunched up the blouse behind her to look at herself and sighed at her modestly endowed body.
Countries far less endowed than ours have made greater economic progress through greater coherence and unity of purpose.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of endow ( def ).

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Other Word Forms

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Word History and Origins

Origin of endowed¹

endow ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

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Another place Trump has had his eye on is Greenland - which is endowed with the eighth largest reserves of rare earth elements.

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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.

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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.

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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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It's endowed with the eighth largest reserves of so-called rare earth elements, which are vital for making everything from mobile phones to batteries and electric motors.

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