Dictionary Entry
bestow
bestow is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.
- 2transitive verb
To use; to apply; to devote, as time or strength in some occupation.
- 3transitive verb
To expend, as money.
- 4transitive verb
To give or confer; to impart; -- with on or upon.
- 5transitive verb
To give in marriage.
- 6transitive verb
To demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by a reflexive pronoun.
- 7verb
present
"The university conferred a degree on its most famous former student, who never graduated"
"bestow an honor on someone"
Synonyms
- 8verb
give as a gift
- 9verb
bestow a quality on
"Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company"
"The music added a lot to the play"
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