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equips

verb , present tense third-person singular of equip

Synonyms and Antonyms of equips

1 to make competent (as by training, skill, or ability) for a particular office or function

years of service in the congress and in the cabinet equipped him better than most people for the office of the presidency

Synonyms of equips

fits, prepares, qualifies, readies, seasons, trains

Words Related to equips

accustoms, adapts, adjusts, conditions, grooms, habituates, shapes, tailors

authorizes, entitles

empowers, enables

educates, indoctrinates, instructs, schools, teaches, tutors

2 to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity

a visit to a ski shop to equip ourselves for a week of skiing in the Rockies

Synonyms of equips

accoutres (or accouters), fits (out), furnishes, girds, kits (up or out) [chiefly British], outfits, provisions, rigs, supplies

Words Related to equips

bestows, contributes, donates, gives, presents

apportions, deals (out), dispenses, distributes, doles out, hands out, metes (out), parcels (out), portions, prorates

allocates, allots, assigns

arms, fortifies, prepares

reequips, refits, refurnishes, reoutfits

Near Antonyms of equips

deprives, dispossesses, divests, strips

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