invest

invest is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 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 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. To put on.
3. transitive verb. 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.
4. transitive verb. To surround, accompany, or attend.
5. transitive verb. To confer; to give.
6. transitive verb. 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.
7. transitive verb. To lay out (money or capital) in business with the /iew of obtaining an income or profit; as, to invest money in bank stock.
8. intransitive verb. To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in.
9. verb. make an investment

   "Put money into bonds"

   Synonyms: commit, place, put

10. verb. place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position

    "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy"

    Synonyms: induct, seat

11. verb. provide with power and authority

    "They vested the council with special rights"

    Synonyms: enthrone, vest

12. verb. furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors

    Synonyms: adorn, clothe

13. verb. give qualities or abilities to

    Synonyms: empower, endow, endue, gift, indue

Synonyms

commit, place, put, induct, seat, enthrone, vest, adorn, clothe, empower, endow, endue, gift, indue

Common word forms

invests, invested, investing, investable, investment

Words from these letters

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