invest
invest has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.
Definitions
- v. t.. To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.
- v. t.. To put on.
- v. t.. To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or glory; to invest with an estate.
- v. t.. To surround, accompany, or attend.
- v. t.. To confer; to give.
- v. t.. To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town.
- v. t.. To lay out (money or capital) in business with the /iew of obtaining an income or profit; as, to invest money in bank stock.
- v. i.. To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in.
- v.. make an investment; "Put money into bonds"
- v.. place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy"
- v.. provide with power and authority; "They vested the council with special rights"
- v.. furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors