endow

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en·dow /ɪnˈdaʊ/ verb [transitiveT]

1.GIVEto give a college, hospital etc a large sum of money that provides it with an income 〔向院校、医院等〕捐款，资助

2 endow somebody/something with something phrasal verbphr v formal

a) to make someone or something have a particular quality, or to believe that they have it 使[认为]…具有〔某种品质〕

Her resistance to the Nationalists endowed her with legendary status.

她对抗民族主义者的事迹使她享有盛名。

b) be endowed with somethingHAVE to naturally have a good feature or quality 天生具有〔某种好的特点或品质〕

She was endowed with good looks.

她天生丽质。

c) GIVEto give someone something 给予，赋予

→ well-endowed

Examples from the Corpus

endow with • Perhaps that early brush with death endowed the villagers with a greater than normal appreciation for the past.• The immediacy of these visionary experiences endows them with a high degree of intensity, but also renders them fleeting and transient.• He was endowed too with a very strong male chemistry.• But it can not be used as a way of endowing anyone with authority where that person had none.• Thus, they are naturally reluctant to endow subordinates with even more independence of action.• Her resistance to Generalissimo Franco's Nationalists endowed her with legendary status.• Perhaps disloyalty to an existing dispensation that has endowed one with one's privileges does look like radical chic.• Vi wished the good Lord had endowed her with size fours, but it wasn't anybody's fault, really.

be endowed with something• Though short in stature, Genda was endowed with a strong fighting spirit which was reflected in his hawk-like countenance.• It was endowed with an endless capacity for multiplication and a remorseless urge to advance.• It is political; it is endowed with anger; it is not neutral.• She was endowed with both good looks and brains.• Shakespeare was an adult genius in that he was endowed with it at birth.• It seems to have been against creative law that the female should be endowed with morals.• Such a conclusion to a hunting trip is evidence that the man is endowed with proper male virtue.• He is endowed with specific talents.• Or that they are endowed with superior leadership genes?

Examples from the Corpus

endow• Donna's parents plan to endow a scholarship fund in memory of their daughter.• But it can not be used as a way of endowing anyone with authority where that person had none.• Vi wished the good Lord had endowed her with size fours, but it wasn't anybody's fault, really.• Like the kidneys, the colon is well endowed with adenosine receptors.• They were almost certainly endowed with highly developed sensory and intuitive powers seen only in the few remaining native tribes alive today.

From Longman Business Dictionary

endowen·dow /ɪnˈdaʊ/ verb [transitiveT]

to give a sum of money to a college, hospital etc in order to give it an income

He planned the museum and helped raise the $55 million to build and endow it.

—endowment noun [countableC, uncountableU]

King’s School received generous new endowments.

Origin endow

(1300-1400) Anglo-French endouer, from Latin dotare “to give”

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