Dictionary Entry
endow
endow is a 5-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.
- 2transitive verb
To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.
- 3verb
furnish with an endowment
"When she got married, she got dowered"
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- 4verb
give qualities or abilities to
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