Synonyms of bestowing

bestowing

verb

present participle of bestow

1

as in donating

to make a present of

bestowed a new car on their son for graduation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• donating
• volunteering
• giving
• presenting
• providing
• contributing
• awarding
• issuing
• offering
• giving of
• giving away
• conferring
• rendering
• furnishing
• affording
• endowing
• lavishing
• benefiting
• aiding
• imparting
• sacrificing
• paying
• assisting
• benefitting
• dispensing
• throwing in
• administering
• extending
• pitching in
• kicking in
• enduing
• regaling
• induing
• chipping in
• proffering
• helping
• comping
• doling out
• handing out
• tendering
• dishing out
• meting (out)
• forking (over, out, or up)
• putting up
• pungling (up)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• holding
• retaining
• keeping
• withholding
• preserving
• saving
• advancing
• pocketing
• lending
• selling
• loaning

2

as in housing

to provide with living quarters or shelter

eventually the refugee family was bestowed in its own apartment

Synonyms & Similar Words

• housing
• accommodating
• sheltering
• lodging
• harboring
• camping
• bunking
• boarding
• quartering
• rooming
• roofing
• encamping
• taking in
• securing
• billeting
• domiciling
• shedding
• bivouacking
• homing
• chambering
• ensconcing
• putting up
• roosting
• tenting
• stabling
• bedding (down)
• barracking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ejecting
• evicting