endow

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en·dow | \ in-ˈdau̇

, en- \

endowed; endowing; endows

Definition of endow

transitive verb

1 : to furnish with an income especially : to make a grant of money providing for the continuing support or maintenance of endow a hospital

2 : to furnish with a dower

3 : to provide with something freely or naturally endowed with a good sense of humor

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Examples of endow in a Sentence

The wealthy couple endowed a new wing of the hospital. She plans to endow a faculty position at the university. The money will be used to endow the museum and research facility.

Recent Examples on the Web The artists adopt formats and motifs familiar from modernist abstraction, but endow them with meaning connected to personal heritages. — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022 Cezanne is considered a pivotal figure in the history of modern art who sought to endow the Impressionist style with a sense of gravity and solidity, rather than to focus on capturing fleeting effects of light and weather. — cleveland, 9 Jan. 2022 Per Forbes, Cash App will endow an initial $100,000 Bitcoin donation. — Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 8 Feb. 2022 Why not endow it with more of the European style flavor buyers might be expecting? — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 22 Jan. 2022 Yet again, Sony has made extensive use of its sensor know-how to endow the Vision-S 02 with a mix of lidar and high-resolution, wide-dynamic-range CMOS optical sensors that give the car a 360-degree view of the world around it. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2022 The University of Michigan has received a $40 million gift from the Judy and Fred Wilpon Family Foundation that will be used to endow the university’s Kessler Scholars Program. — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021 Despite some of the unconvincing-sounding talk, the actors endow their roles with textured individuality. — Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2021 Donors can endow individual shelves, for eighty-nine dollars and fifty cents each. — David Owen, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021 See More

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endow

verb

en·dow | \ in-ˈdau̇

endowed; endowing

Kids Definition of endow

1 : to provide with money for support The millionaire endowed a scholarship.

2 : to provide with something freely or naturally Humans are endowed with reason.

endow

transitive verb

en·dow | \ in-ˈdau̇

Legal Definition of endow

: to furnish with income especially : to make a grant of money providing for the continuing support or maintenance of a scholarship endowed by the testator