Definitions for endows

endows en·dow

Spelling: [en-dou]
IPA: /ɛnˈdaʊ/

Endows is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in endows (denosw).

Definitions for endows

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 endows

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 endows

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for endows
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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