variants
or indues
1
as in suffuses
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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2
as in gifts
to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute
she's always been endued with an unquenchable optimism
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for endues
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Smith suffuses the book with a kind of clinical detachment, even as the dread mounts with each page.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025 -
An international cult favorite, Lee is revered for the philosophical nerve that suffuses his rigorously inventive melodramas, which variously pick apart the complexities of Korean society.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Aug. 2025
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The accident leaves him horrifically disfigured, but also gifts him with enhanced strength.—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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The announcement effectively gifts the largest and most dangerous polluters in the country the right to unregulated emissions.—
Ryan Gellert,
Fortune,
5 Aug. 2025
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That infuses so much of the album.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
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Tech giant OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Atlas on Tuesday—a browser that infuses generative AI capabilities throughout the user experience.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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At the same time, Venus enters Libra and blesses your sector of expansion, travel, education, and big-picture dreams.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
12 Oct. 2025
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Instead, the committee said young children should receive one vaccine for chickenpox and a different shot known as MMR that inoculates against measles, mumps and rubella.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
24 Sep. 2025
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Develop Character To Combat Cognitive Warfare Developing and strengthening character inoculates individuals.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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The Constitution endows Congress with the authority to do just that, if only the body could be motivated to act.—
Robert Goulder,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Taking care of her niece endows the narrator with purpose; love overpowers her.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Yet Plemons imbues him with despair, finding a pitiful fragility in his aggression.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2025
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Dead Poets Society starred Hawke as one of several boarding school students under the tutelage of a sensitive new English teacher, John Keating (Williams), who imbues his pupils with a newfound appreciation for poetry.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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The amendment invests an additional $450,000 in Birth to Three providers, which help families with children who experience disabilities and developmental delays, including vision and hearing challenges, during the crucial early stage of development.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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According to Hamilton Lane, a firm that invests on behalf of pension funds, as of 2021 PE firms were still holding 45% of their buyout deals five years following their purchase; last year, around 65% were still sitting unsold after a half-decade.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
1 Nov. 2025
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“Endues.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/endues. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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