INVEST

invest, put, commit, place

(verb) make an investment; “Put money into bonds”

induct, invest, seat

(verb) place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; “there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy”

invest, vest, enthrone

(verb) provide with power and authority; “They vested the council with special rights”

invest, clothe, adorn

(verb) furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors

endow, indue, gift, empower, invest, endue

(verb) give qualities or abilities to

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Verb

invest (third-person singular simple present invests, present participle investing, simple past and past participle invested)

To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.

(transitive, dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).

(intransitive, obsolete) To put on (clothing).

To envelop, wrap, cover.

To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.

To ceremonially install someone in some office.

To formally give (someone) some power or authority.

To formally give (power or authority).

To surround, accompany, or attend.

To lay siege to.

(intransitive) To make investments.

(metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).

(intransitive) To be involved in; to form strong attachments to.

Synonyms

• (put on clothing): beclothe, don, dress; see also clothe

• (lay siege to): besiege

Antonyms

• (clothe): divest

• (give): divest

• (commit funds): disinvest, divest

Etymology 2

Noun

invest (plural invests)

(meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.

Anagrams

• ventis

Source: Wiktionary

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In*vest", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Invested; p. pr. & vb. n. Investing.] Etym: [L. investire, investitum; pref. in- in + vestire to clothe, fr. vestis clothing: cf. F. investir. See Vest.]

1. To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

2. To put on. [Obs.] Can not find one this girdle to invest. Spenser.

3. To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or glory; to invest with an estate. I do invest you jointly with my power. Shak.

4. To surround, accompany, or attend. Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt. Hawthorne.

5. To confer; to give. [R.] It investeth a right of government. Bacon.

6. (Mil.)

Definition: To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town.

7. To lay out (money or capital) in business with the as, to invest money in bank stock.

In*vest", v. i.

Definition: To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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