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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After setting her wildly popular debut The Tiger's Wife in a Balkans suffused with myth and magic, the author turned in subsequent books to the Old West and a city redolent of New York.

— Colin Dwyer, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026
The threat is still there, suffused into the air like a memory, but for a time the choice between love and survival no longer feels mutually exclusive to Nino and Yasmina.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 22 July 2026

Definition of suffuse

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Deep within the backwoods of rural Oklahoma, charismatic and musically gifted Amziah King herds a bluegrass-playing band of misfits while overseeing the premier honey-making operation in town.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2026
That was the case Wednesday, when the Giants received six solid innings from starter Adrian Houser but gifted the Astros the tying run in the seventh.

— Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of gift

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Yet the filmmakers infuse it with levity, showing his love and affinity for animals, as well ashis musical talents.

— Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 18 Aug. 2026
Bits of pickled veg and infused butters come with the bread course, and the Parker House-like bread itself is multicolored thanks to leftover bits of beet and ramp and carrot.

— Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of infuse

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The full-bodied physicality with which delas Alas imbues her performance turns such punishingly poignant bits into the stuff of boisterous spectacle.

— Lé Baltar, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2026
Partial drafts of his work were carried along with him, soaked in Salinger’s sweat and imbued with his raw, instinctive reactions to conflict.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of imbue

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Seeing an old bulky PC with a PC-DOS command line OS takes those of us of a certain age back to the heady days when computers were exciting and new, even though they had not yet been endowed with the eerie cognitive powers of LLMs.

— John Werner, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
But they’re endowed with a fundamentally different intelligence, one shaped by a separate evolutionary path and defined by a nervous system that’s distributed throughout their bodies rather than centralized like that of the brains of most animals.

— Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 29 July 2026

Definition of endow

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We were constantly informed that our purpose was to become genteel and inculcated in Christian virtue.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
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, 27 Apr. 2026

Definition of inculcate

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E*Trade's head pitched it as clients wanting to invest, trade, bank and plan in one place.

— Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
And yet while some clubs of a similar size were happy to keep selling players to re-invest, Tottenham generally only did so with first-team players in very specific circumstances.

— Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026

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