endow
verb (used with object)
to provide with a permanent fund or source of income.
is endowing
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present progressiveof endow (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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A young man marrying where money is will no longer have to announce that he is endowing his more economically potent bride with all his worldly goods.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr Carnegie, in endowing education, is endowing that which he has publicly condemned.
From American Sketches 1908 by Charles Whibley
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
From The Lyric An Essay by John Drinkwater
He is endowing four scholarships to study the twenty per cent. and is not doing a thing to study the eighty per cent.!
From Fundamentals of Prosperity What They Are and Whence They Come by Roger W. Babson
