Definitions for endow

endow en·dow

Spelling: [en-dou]
IPA: /ɛnˈdaʊ/

Endow is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in endow (denow).

Definitions for endow

verb (used with object)

  1. to provide with a permanent fund or source of income:
  2. to furnish, as with some talent, faculty, or quality; equip:
  3. Obsolete. to provide with a dower.

verb (used without object)

  1. (of a life-insurance policy) to become payable; yield its conditions.

Origin of endow

1350-1400; Middle English endowen Old French endouer, equivalent to en- en-1 + douer Latin dōtāre to dower, equivalent to dōt- (stem of dōs) dowry + -āre inf

Examples for endow

But He will endow her with all His wealth, and raise her to sit with Him on a throne forever.

Youth is prone to endow its opinions with all the dignity of certain knowledge.

So we now endow somewhat Islamicism, which we would condemn with the greatest contempt if it were a fundamentalist Christianity.

For their art, there was not worth enough in it to endow it with any lasting vitality.

Small beginnings of the fortune that was to found and endow asylums!

To expect him to control events would be to endow him with a power that no president has possessed.

I do not endow her with my worldly goods, for thou knowest I have none.

What was lacking in his power that he could not endow them with life?

Just this year, Betsy and Dick Devos, trustees from Michigan, pledged $22 million to endow an art management program.

What he did was to endow the church with this admirable piece of head-gear.

Word Value for endow
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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