endow
verb /ɪnˈdaʊ/
/ɪnˈdaʊ/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they endow | /ɪnˈdaʊ/ /ɪnˈdaʊ/ |
| he / she / it endows | /ɪnˈdaʊz/ /ɪnˈdaʊz/ |
| past simple endowed | /ɪnˈdaʊd/ /ɪnˈdaʊd/ |
| past participle endowed | /ɪnˈdaʊd/ /ɪnˈdaʊd/ |
| -ing form endowing | /ɪnˈdaʊɪŋ/ /ɪnˈdaʊɪŋ/ |
- endow something to give a large sum of money to a school, a college or another institution to provide it with an income
- In her will, she endowed a scholarship in the physics department.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryEndow is used with these nouns as the subject:- nature
- chair
Word Originlate Middle English (also in the sense ‘provide a dower or dowry’; formerly also as indow): from legal Anglo-Norman French endouer, from en- ‘in, towards’ + Old French douer ‘give as a gift’ (from Latin dotare ‘endow’, from dos, dot- ‘dowry’).