endow

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vt. 捐赠, 捐助, 赋予 [法] 赠送财产给, 分给寡妇一份遗产, 授与

发音

UK /ɪnˈdaʊ/
UK /ɛn-/
US /ɪnˈdaʊ/

词形变化

endowed endowedst endowest endoweth endowing endows 三单 endows endowing 现在分词 endowed 过去式 endowed 过去分词

别名

indow

教材释义与例句

动词

赋予；捐赠；天生具有

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.

    赠予

    赋予

    及物
  2. 2.

    To enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.

    赋予

    及物
  3. 3.

    To naturally furnish (with something).

    及物

    She was endowed with a beautiful voice.

  4. 4.

    To provide with a dower (“the portion that a widow receives from her deceased husband's property”) or a dowry (“property given to a bride”).

    古体 废旧 及物

词汇关系

动词

同义词 6

gift invest empower dower endue indue

上位词 4

give present gift enable

下位词 2

cover benefice

词源

From Late Middle English endowen, endouen, enduen, indouen, indw (“to provide with assets, a livelihood, or privileges; to bestow, grant; (figuratively) to favour; to endow”), from Anglo-Norman endouer, from Old French en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + douer (“to endow”) (from Latin dōtāre (present active infinitive of dōtō (“to endow”)); modern French douer). Dōtō is derived from dōs (“dowry; endowment, gift”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

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