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endowing
[en-dou] 
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endow
[en-dou]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give large gift |
| Synonyms: | accord, award, back, bequeath, bestow, come through with, confer, contribute, donate, empower, enable, endue, enhance, enrich, establish, favor, finance, found, fund, furnish, grant, heighten, invest, lay on, leave, make over, organize, promote, provide, settle on, sponsor, subscribe, subsidize, supply, support, vest in, will |
| Antonyms: | receive, take |
| Main Entry: | appropriation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allocation, setting aside |
| Synonyms: | allotment, allowance, apportionment, assignment, budgeting, concession, donation, earmarking, endowing, funding, giving, grant, provision, setting apart, sponsoring, stipend, stipulation, subsidy |
| Antonyms: | keeping, refusal, rejection |
| Main Entry: | award |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give prize or reward |
| Synonyms: | accord, adjudge, allocate, allot, apportion, assign, bestow, concede, confer, decree, dish out, distribute, donate, endow, fork out, gift, grant, hand out, present, render, reward, shell out, sweeten the kitty |
| Main Entry: | bequeath |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give in a will |
| Synonyms: | bestow, commit, devise, endow, entrust, grant, hand down, hand on, impart, leave, leave to, legate, pass on, transmit, will |
| Antonyms: | take |
| Main Entry: | bless |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grant, bestow |
| Synonyms: | celebrate, endow, favor, give, glorify, grace, laud, magnify, praise, provide |
| Antonyms: | deny, disallow, disapprove, refuse, veto |
| Main Entry: | clothe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cover with apparel |
| Synonyms: | accouter, apparel, array, attire, bedizen, bedrape, breech, bundle up, caparison, cloak, coat, costume, dandify, deck, disguise, dizen, do up, drape, dress, dress up, dud, endow, endue, enwrap, equip, fit, fit out, garb, gown, guise, habilitate, habit, invest, jacket, livery, mantle, outfit, primp, raiment, rig, robe, spruce, suit up, swaddle, swathe, tog, turn out, vest |
| Antonyms: | reveal, take off, unclothe, uncover |
| Main Entry: | contribute |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | donate, provide |
| Synonyms: | accord, add, afford, ante up, assign, bequeath, bequest, bestow, chip in, come through, commit, confer, devote, dispense, dole out, dower, endow, enrich, furnish, give, give away, go Dutch, grant, hand out, kick in, pitch in, pony up, present, proffer, sacrifice, share, subscribe, subsidize, supply, sweeten the kitty, tender, will |
| Antonyms: | harm, hurt, neglect, oppose, shun, subtract, take, take away, withdraw, withhold |
| Main Entry: | crown |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reward, dignify |
| Synonyms: | adorn, arm, authorize, commission, coronate, delegate, determine, dower, enable, endow, endue, ennoble, enthrone, erect, establish, exalt, festoon, fix, heighten, honor, inaugurate, induct, install, invest, raise, sanction, set up, settle, stabilize, strengthen |
| Antonyms: | dishonor, disregard, fine, punish |
| Main Entry: | distribute |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | allocate, deliver, spread |
| Synonyms: | administer, allot, apportion, appropriate, assign, bestow, circulate, consign, convey, cut up, deal, deal out, diffuse, disburse, dish out, dispense, disperse, dispose, disseminate, divide, divvy up, dole out, donate, endow, fork out, give, give away, hand out, issue, lot out, measure out, mete, parcel, partition, pass out, pay out, present, prorate, radiate, ration, scatter, share, shell out, slice up, sow, strew |
| Antonyms: | collect, gather, hoard, hold, keep, maintain, preserve, store |
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