endow

[ en-dou ]

/ ɛnˈdaʊ /

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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.

Obsolete. to provide with a dower.

verb (used without object)

(of a life-insurance policy) to become payable; yield its conditions.

OTHER WORDS FOR endow

2 invest, clothe, endue.

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Origin of endow

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English endowen, from Old French endouer, equivalent to en- en-¹ + douer, from Latin dōtāre “to dower,” equivalent to dōt- (stem of dōs ) “dowry” + -āre infinitive suffix

OTHER WORDS FROM endow

en·dow·er, nounre·en·dow, verb (used with object)su·per·en·dow, verb (used with object)un·en·dow·ing, adjective

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How to use endow in a sentence

The company does this to save money, not to give its customers the ability to swap parts around, but it endows the range with a certain degree of Legoability nonetheless.
Inside My Custom Toyota Land Cruiser Build|Wes Siler|October 15, 2020|Outside Online
Thus endowed, both animals were more UV tolerant compared with individuals immersed in only water.
Glowing blue helps shield this tardigrade from harmful ultraviolet light|Jonathan Lambert|October 13, 2020|Science News
This can endow plants—crops, to put a fine point on it—with a built-in health plan.
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Coleman says the company has made versions of the coronavirus whose genes are peppered with 240 mutations that endow it with some of the worst-performing codons.
Synthetic biologists have created a slow-growing version of the coronavirus to give as a vaccine|David Rotman|September 16, 2020|MIT Technology Review

However with the founding of new walls, the settlement was finally endowed with its own government.
Ostia Antica: Reconstruction and History of The Harbor City of Ancient Rome|Dattatreya Mandal|April 14, 2020|Realm of History
So we now endow somewhat Islamicism, which we would condemn with the greatest contempt if it were a fundamentalist Christianity.
Sunday Q&A: Josef Joffe on the Myth of American Decline|Michael Moynihan|November 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
To expect him to control events would be to endow him with a power that no president has possessed.
How Obama Got Fierce on Foreign Policy: James Mann’s 'The Obamians'|Jacob Heilbrunn|June 15, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Just this year, Betsy and Dick Devos, trustees from Michigan, pledged $22 million to endow an art management program.
Washington's Richest Power Players|Sandra McElwaine|May 19, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Nay, by managing its own work and following its own happy inspiration, youth is doing the best it can to endow the leisure of age.
The Pocket R.L.S.|Robert Louis Stevenson
God could not endow him with sinlessness, which is an inalienable portion of Divine perfection.
Superstition In All Ages (1732)|Jean Meslier
To endow him with a moderate share of beauty, some one would have been deprived of his, or her good looks.
Alone|Marion Harland
As we go through this existence we discover secrets with which we endow the liberal and the mechanical arts.
Catherine de' Medici|Honore de Balzac
She availed herself of all those immunities and privileges which the gods confer upon young women whom they endow with good looks.
A Hoosier Chronicle|Meredith Nicholson

British Dictionary definitions for endow

endow

/ (ɪnˈdaʊ) /

verb (tr)

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 of endow

endower, noun

Word Origin for endow

C14: from Old French endouer, from en- 1 + douer, from Latin dōtāre, from dōs dowry

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