ENDOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does endow mean? 

• ENDOW (verb)
  The verb ENDOW has 2 senses:

1. give qualities or abilities to

2. furnish with an endowment

  Familiarity information: ENDOW used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENDOW (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they endow    ... he / she / it endows   
Past simple: endowed   
Past participle: endowed   
-ing form: endowing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give qualities or abilities to

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

empower; endow; endue; gift; indue; invest

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

enable (render capable or able for some task)

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

cover (invest with a large or excessive amount of something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody with something

Derivation:

endowment (natural abilities or qualities)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Furnish with an endowment

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

dower; endow

Context example:

When she got married, she got dowered

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

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

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

benefice (endow with a benefice)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something

Derivation:

endowment (the act of endowing with a permanent source of income)

endowment (the capital that provides income for an institution)

 Context examples 

Time had altered her since I last beheld her; it had endowed her with loveliness surpassing the beauty of her childish years.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Sir knight, said the prince, we have all marvelled this day at this great skill and valor with which God has been pleased to endow you.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When a lady, young and full of life and health, charming with beauty and endowed with the gifts of rank and fortune, sits and smiles in the eyes of a gentleman you—I what?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I felt endowed with a sudden strength. What of my new-found love, I was a giant. I feared nothing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

For where, Fanny, shall we find a woman whom nature had so richly endowed?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Amy especially enjoyed this high honor, and became quite a belle among them, for her ladyship early felt and learned to use the gift of fascination with which she was endowed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He is also the one among us who is endowed with that Celtic temperament which would make him sensitive to such impressions.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Though better endowed than the elder sister, Mary had not Anne's understanding nor temper.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Because these cells are endowed with MHC-non-restricted killer activity, TALL-104 has destructive potential against a broad range of tumors, while sparing normal cells.

(Human MHC Non-Restricted Cytotoxic T-Cell Line TALL-104, NCI Thesaurus)