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endow

/en-dou/US // ɛnˈdaʊ //UK // (ɪnˈdaʊ) //

捐赠,资助,禀赋,禀承

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to provide with a permanent fund or source of income: to endow a college.
    • : to furnish, as with some talent, faculty, or quality; equip: Nature has endowed her with great ability.
    • : Obsolete. to provide with a dower.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become payable; yield its conditions.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbgive large gift
Forms: endowed

Examples

  • The company does this to save money, not to give its customers the ability to swap parts around, but it endows the range with a certain degree of Legoability nonetheless.

  • Thus endowed, both animals were more UV tolerant compared with individuals immersed in only water.

  • This can endow plants—crops, to put a fine point on it—with a built-in health plan.

  • Coleman says the company has made versions of the coronavirus whose genes are peppered with 240 mutations that endow it with some of the worst-performing codons.

  • However with the founding of new walls, the settlement was finally endowed with its own government.

  • So we now endow somewhat Islamicism, which we would condemn with the greatest contempt if it were a fundamentalist Christianity.

  • To expect him to control events would be to endow him with a power that no president has possessed.

  • Just this year, Betsy and Dick Devos, trustees from Michigan, pledged $22 million to endow an art management program.

  • Nay, by managing its own work and following its own happy inspiration, youth is doing the best it can to endow the leisure of age.

  • God could not endow him with sinlessness, which is an inalienable portion of Divine perfection.

  • To endow him with a moderate share of beauty, some one would have been deprived of his, or her good looks.

  • As we go through this existence we discover secrets with which we endow the liberal and the mechanical arts.

  • She availed herself of all those immunities and privileges which the gods confer upon young women whom they endow with good looks.