bestow

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be·stow /bɪˈstəʊ $ -ˈstoʊ/ verb [transitiveT]

formalGIVE to give someone something of great value or importance 给予；赠给；授予

bestow something on/upon somebody

honours bestowed on him by the Queen

女王授予他的荣誉

Examples from the Corpus

bestow• There may be some musical magic which only practice can bestow.• Ishmael is still not satisfied that he has bestowed enough dignity on the profession of whaling.• How does a woman with a large inheritance commonly bestow it on a man?• That, sadly, is a market at work, and suppressing it would only bestow the seedy glamour of the underground.• But she did believe that her revelations had not been bestowed upon her for herself but for everybody.• It has no other being except that which is bestowed upon it by human activity and consciousness.• I intend to bestow upon you unsolicited advice, my darling.

bestow something on/upon somebody• An award for poetry was bestowed on Philip Levine for his collection "What Work Is."

Origin bestow

(1300-1400) stow

be·stow verb

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