ENDUE Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

endue

verb

in-ˈdü

variants or indue

Definition of endue

as in to suffuse

to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle professional soldiers endued with an ironclad sense of duty and honor

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as in to gift

to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute she's always been endued with an unquenchable optimism

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Photograph by David Billet For years now, pop music has been suffused with a vague, or coded, malaise.

— Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026
Nacer is quite good at variations of patriarchal obliviousness, and Pebdani suffuses her women with streaks of guilt.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of suffuse

Verb

Mary tells them that Britani left her event with not one but THREE floral arrangements, which included the one that Mary gifted her, one right off the table, and the one that Britani herself brought as a gift.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
The New York Public Library was gifted some 250 prints by Kiki Smith from her sister, the artist Seton Smith.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of gift

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The result is a piece of writing that is by turns reflective, researched, confessional and infused with righteous anger.

— David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
During a visit in August, I was charmed to find that the fresh Jersey peaches infused into the water were cut in the shape of hearts.

— Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of infuse

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So far, his scheming hasn’t been all that productive, and with Saeed inching into the case, Johnny is more likely to get benched with Molly, who’s mostly there to say lines of expository dialogue, bless her.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
And while he’s been blessed by natural talent and physicality, his rise through the system has been a journey of sacrifice and education.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of bless

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Someone once said that the German psyche has a tendency to endow the inanimate with a soul, and in my home that thought was illustrated one hundred times over.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Oct. 2026
An essential state role, parallel to provisioning basic services like education and healthcare, is endowing a wide open aesthetic field of form and meaning and collective sensibility.

— Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of endow

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City finished 17 points behind Chelsea when Chelsea won their most recent title, and maybe after a while that inculcates a sense of shakiness, or not-quite-worthiness.

— Katie Whyatt, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Within these confines the main characters register as aliens; Wendy and Jack aren’t just flustered but people who seem to have never been inculcated with a rudimentary sense of social propriety.

— Vadim Rizov, Variety, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of inculcate

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced this month that his Economic Development Corporation, helmed by Biden’s former FTC chair, Lina Khan, would invest $30 million in a quantum technology lab in exchange for 15% of its profits.

— Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Yet while humans invest billions each year to protect ourselves from disease, less than 1% of global health spending goes toward animal health.

— Robert Kelly, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026

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