DONATE

donate

(verb) give to a charity or good cause; “I donated blood to the Red Cross for the victims of the earthquake”; “donate money to the orphanage”; “She donates to her favorite charity every month”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

donate (third-person singular simple present donates, present participle donating, simple past and past participle donated)

(ambitransitive) To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another.

Anagrams

• Deaton, antode, atoned

Source: Wiktionary


Do"nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Donated; p. pr. & vb. n. Donating.] Etym: [L. donatus, p. p. of donare to donate, fr. donum gift, fr. dare to give. See 2d Date.]

Definition: To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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25 April 2024

TYPIFY

(verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; “The fugue typifies Bach’s style of composition”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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