endow

tr.v., -dowed, -dow·ing, -dows.

1. To provide with property, income, or a source of income.
2. 1. To equip or supply with a talent or quality: Nature endowed you with a beautiful singing voice.
   2. To imagine as having a usually favorable trait or quality: endowed the family pet with human intelligence.
3. Obsolete. To provide with a dower.

[Middle English endowen, from Anglo-Norman endouer : Old French en-, intensive pref.; see en-¹ + Old French douer, to provide with a dowry (from Latin dōtāre , from dōs, dōt-, dowry).]

verb

To present with a quality, trait, or power: dower, endue, gift, gird, invest. See give/take/reciprocity.

v

Definition: give large gift
Antonyms: receive, take

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IN BRIEF: To provide with some quality or thing. Also: To provide a gift of money to a college, hospital or museum.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. — Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962).

Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - testamentere, skænke legatsum til, betænke, donere

Nederlands (Dutch)
subsidiëren, bruidsschat geven

Français (French)
v. tr. - doter, subventionner, fonder, (fig) être doté de

Deutsch (German)
v. - dotieren, ausstatten, fällig werden (Lebensversicherung)

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - προικίζω, προικοδοτώ, διορίζω, παρέχω (οικονομικά) προνόμια

Italiano (Italian)
sussidiare

idioms:

• endow with    dotare di

Português (Portuguese)
v. - doar

idioms:

• endow with    dotar

Русский (Russian)
материально обеспечить, одарять, наделять, выделять законную часть

idioms:

• endow with    обеспечить чем-либо

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - dotar, obsequiar, hacer una donación

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - donera pengar till

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
捐赠, 赋予, 捐助

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 捐贈, 賦予, 捐助

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 재산을 기부하다, 주다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 基金を寄付する, 賦与する, 授ける, …にあると考える, 与える

idioms:

• endow with    授ける

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يمنح, يهب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮תרם, העניק, הקדיש נכס‬

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