endowed; endowing; endows
1
: to furnish with an income
especially
: to make a grant of money providing for the continuing support or maintenance of
endow a hospital
2
: to furnish with a dower
3
: to provide with something freely or naturally
endowed with a good sense of humor
Examples of endow in a Sentence
The wealthy couple endowed a new wing of the hospital.
She plans to endow a faculty position at the university.
The money will be used to endow the museum and research facility.
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The music endows the revival with a fluidity that is made all the more haunting by the otherworldly echoes of Peter Rice’s sound design.
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
Reflecting this, Anglo-American law long endowed prosecutors with unrestricted authority to drop cases.
—The Editors, National Review, 21 Feb. 2025
And yet the Guthman has been going strong since 2009, when what was formerly a fusty piano competition endowed by the Georgia Tech alumnus Richard Guthman transformed into a showcase for instrument inventors, in a bid to tie the school’s music program to its international high-tech reputation.
—Matthew Sherrill, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
And there’s a freedom that has been endowed by Trump and Musk to these voices to push and advocate for this racial grievance politics, which is completely unmoored from South Africa’s social reality.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
Reflecting this, Anglo-American law long endowed prosecutors with unrestricted authority to drop cases.
—The Editors, National Review, 21 Feb. 2025
And yet the Guthman has been going strong since 2009, when what was formerly a fusty piano competition endowed by the Georgia Tech alumnus Richard Guthman transformed into a showcase for instrument inventors, in a bid to tie the school’s music program to its international high-tech reputation.
—Matthew Sherrill, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
And there’s a freedom that has been endowed by Trump and Musk to these voices to push and advocate for this racial grievance politics, which is completely unmoored from South Africa’s social reality.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for endow
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“Endow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/endow. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.
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endow
verb
en·dow
in-ˈdau̇ 
1
: to provide with money for support or maintenance
2
: to furnish with something freely or naturally
humans are endowed with reason
Legal Definition
endow
transitive verb
en·dow
in-ˈdau̇
: to furnish with income
especially
: to make a grant of money providing for the continuing support or maintenance of
a scholarship endowed by the testator
Etymology
Anglo-French endower, from Old French en-, prefix stressing completion + douer to endow, from Latin dotare, from dot-, dos gift, dowry
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