Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive verb
To put on.
- 3transitive 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.
- 4transitive verb
To surround, accompany, or attend.
- 5transitive verb
To confer; to give.
- 6transitive 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.
- 7transitive 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.
- 8intransitive verb
To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in.
- 9verb
make an investment
"Put money into bonds"
- 10verb
place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position
"there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy"
- 11verb
provide with power and authority
"They vested the council with special rights"
- 12verb
furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors
- 13verb
give qualities or abilities to
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