DONATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does donate mean? 

• DONATE (verb)
  The verb DONATE has 1 sense:

1. give to a charity or good cause

  Familiarity information: DONATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DONATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they donate    ... he / she / it donates   
Past simple: donated   
Past participle: donated   
-ing form: donating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give to a charity or good cause

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

She donates to her favorite charity every month

Hypernyms (to "donate" is one way to...):

gift; give; present (give as a present; make a gift of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "donate"):

pledge; subscribe (pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

donation (act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity)

donation (a voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause)

 Context examples 

A disease caused when cells from a donated stem cell graft attack the normal tissue of the transplant patient.

(Graft Versus Host Disease, NCI Dictionary)

See if you can donate or recycle.

(Hazardous Waste, Environmental Protection Agency)

Some types of care and community services are free or donated.

(Home Care Services, NIH)

The area in the United States comprised of a 68 square mile area northeast of the Potomac River donated by the state of Maryland.

(District of Columbia, NCI Thesaurus)

Treatments include chemotherapy, stem cell transplants, infusion of donated white blood cells following stem cell transplants, surgery to remove the spleen, and biologic and targeted therapies.

(Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Transplantation may be autologous (an individual's own marrow saved before treatment), allogeneic (marrow donated by someone else), or syngeneic (marrow donated by an identical twin).

(Bone Marrow Transplantation, NCI Dictionary)

The family of a participant who died following completion of the study donated the brain for further analysis.

(Microbleeds may worsen outcome after head injury, National Institutes of Health)

This is when a healthy person donates part of his or her liver for a specific patient.

(Liver Transplantation, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Organ donation: Must a relative donate an organ to a sick relative?

(Medical Ethics, NIH)

But some organs and tissues can be donated while the donor is alive.

(Organ Donation, Health Resources and Services Administration)