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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The threat of shattered glass if the bottle breaks, the subsequent odor suffusing all the items in your carryon, liquids seeping dangerously close to electronics—none of it sounds like a good idea.

— Chloe Schama, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2026
But Pete took the idea one step further, taking the organization’s iconic symbol — the star — and suffusing it with a deeper meaning.

— Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of suffuse

Verb

Last year for my birthday, two of my closest friends gifted me this beautiful Bellocchi casserole, which worked great alongside the yellows and greens of the sunflowers as an unconventional but perfect salad bowl.

— Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2026
Colbert gifted Kimmel his Captain America shield, did a sketch-within-an-interview with his son impersonating a Kiwi police officer, and shaved for our amusement.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of gift

Verb

The Green Goddess olive oil is infused with zesty basil, garlic, onion, and bright notes of lemon, packaged in a tin, to elevate any dish.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026
Instead, infuse your documents with problems, actions and identifiable results that go beyond the key phrases that AI has imposed into your documents.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of infuse

Verb

New Balance 1080v15 Sneaker If you’ve been blessed twice — with supination and wide feet, that is — grabbing the 1080v15 from New Balance will kill two birds with one stone.

— Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
But not everyone is blessed like Leonardo DiCaprio to work with Martin Scorsese from the age of 20 or whatever.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of bless

Verb

Krieps can’t help but respect Murphy for the unshackled nature with which his female characters are imbued.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026
Like a bright orange Flos Snoopy table lamp by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni and a space-age vintage armchair by Ettore Sottsass; pieces with provenance and elevated craftsmanship that imbue a space with meaning.

— Genevieve Walker, Architectural Digest, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of imbue

Verb

This extreme foregrounding of character in terms of action endows the cast with a retrospective air of typecasting, in a positive sense—the actors seem made for their parts, coalescing with their characters temperamentally.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2026
The show was considered an outlier in its generally sympathetic take on Hill and his conservative views, as well as in terms of the agency with which the show’s creators endowed its working- and middle-class characters.

— Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of endow

Verb

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

Verb

That’s why many manufacturing enterprises, despite having the resources to invest, are still running disconnected projects instead of building an AI strategy that creates lasting value across the organization.

— Nishkam Batta, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
The relationships off the field have carried on onto the field and therefore more time is being invested around each other, with each other.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026

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