INVESTED
Verb
invested
simple past tense and past participle of invest
Anagrams
• deinvest
Source: Wiktionary
INVEST
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