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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Good binoculars will reveal a score of stars in this little group, while long-exposure observatory photographs show about 1000 in the area — all suffused in great clouds and streamers of nebulous light.

— Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 July 2026
Lyrically, these 10 songs are suffused with a bittersweet feeling of nostalgia for early adulthood, as heard on the album’s title track.

— Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2026

Definition of suffuse

Verb

In the early 1990s, an anonymous donor gifted $130,000 over two years to put in heaters, upgrade restrooms and work on pipes and landscaping, among other improvements.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 16 July 2026
By gifting her peonies, they’ve been added to the group in Kristin’s garden.

— Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 14 July 2026

Definition of gift

Verb

How did Erlanger and Nyong’o infuse those qualities into her red carpet and photo call attire?

— Julia Teti, Footwear News, 14 July 2026
Rock, 27, first popped up on Vine and later YouTube, infusing his short- and long-form content with humor and tons of natural charisma, and developing a significant following as an early beauty creator.

— Kara Nesvig, Time, 14 July 2026

Definition of infuse

Verb

Circe, who is blessed with some powers of insight, turns out to be right.

— Eliana Dockterman, Time, 17 July 2026
Even just one win in international football is superb, but the point about Deschamps is that he has been blessed with one of the most astonishing generations of talent the game has ever seen.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 15 July 2026

Definition of bless

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Official liberalism had long been almost inextricably identified with a picture of man as perfectible, as endowed with sufficient wisdom and selflessness to endure power and to use it infallibly for the general good.

— David Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
He is endowed with the gift of making his characters seem not only credible but desirable, approachable, and human, thanks to his undeniable charm.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 6 July 2026

Definition of endow

Verb

Teaching religion at two Catholic high schools before and after law school, my job was to inculcate Roman Catholic values in my students.

— Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 29 June 2026
We were constantly informed that our purpose was to become genteel and inculcated in Christian virtue.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 May 2026

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