ENDOWED

endowed

(adjective) provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature); “a well-endowed college”; “endowed with good eyesight”; “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

endowed

simple past tense and past participle of endow

Adjective

endowed (not comparable)

Provided or furnished with something.

Founded by an endowment.

Source: Wiktionary


ENDOW

En*dow", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Endowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Endowing.] Etym: [OF. endouer; pref. en- (L. in) + F. douer to endow, L. dotare. See Dower, and cf. 2d Endue.]

1. To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution. Endowing hospitals and almshouses. Bp. Stillingfleet.

2. To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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12 June 2025

RAREFACTION

(noun) a decrease in the density of something; “a sound wave causes periodic rarefactions in its medium”


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