endow

verb

en·dow | \ in-ˈdau̇

, en-\

endowed; endowing; endows

Definition of endow

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.

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The couple, whose daughter attends Duke, will then contribute $10 million to permanently endow the gap-year program. — Melissa Korn, WSJ, "Welcome to College. Now Take a Year Off," 25 Dec. 2018 That’s in large part due to its UNESCO status, endowed upon the region in 2000 for its architectural and agricultural history. — Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, "The Best Way to Experience Austria's Wine Country Is By Bike," 7 Sep. 2018 Kempowski, who endowed his characters with autobiographical traits, died in 2007 at the age of 78. — New York Times, "750,000 Germans Fled East Prussia in 1945. A Novelist Imagines One Family’s Exodus.," 25 May 2018 Watson seemed to be endowed with the kind of clerical skills humans use on a host of real-world problems. — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, "AI Keeps Mastering Games, But Can It Win in the Real World?," 27 Feb. 2018 Capote’s central suggestion—that affection endows Christmas more grandly than things—might sound too precious by half, but the lyricism of his language makes his message compellingly plausible. — Danny Heitman, WSJ, "An Ode to Holiday Companionship," 21 Dec. 2018 Calculated Healing It’s still early, but in the last few years researchers have routinely endowed cells with rudimentary computing capabilities, says James Collins, another MIT bioengineer and one of the pioneers of synthetic biology. — Eric Smalley, Discover Magazine, "Cellular Cyborgs: How Programmable DNA Strands Might Control Healing," 25 Sep. 2018 Much like how new cars keep getting slowly but surely endowed with features like automatic emergency braking or lane keep, BMW apparently wants to start by just helping to cut down on the most avoidable accidents. — Sean O'kane, The Verge, "BMW made a self-driving motorcycle," 12 Sep. 2018 Shaw had endowed his flower girl with a much greater gift than a good ear: the ability to be free of her own sculptor. — Corby Kummer, The Atlantic, "How Do Carousel and My Fair Lady Fare in 2018?," 8 July 2018

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endow

verb

English Language Learners Definition of endow

: to give a large amount of money to a school, hospital, etc., in order to pay for the creation or continuing support of (something)

: to freely or naturally provide (someone or something) with something

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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