endow
verbVerb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they endow | |
| he / she / it endows | |
| past simple endowed | |
| past participle endowed | |
| -ing form endowing |
- endow something
to give a large sum of money to a school, a college or another institution to provide it with an income （向学校等机构）捐钱，捐赠，资助 In her will, she endowed a scholarship in the physics department. 她在遗嘱里给物理学系捐赠了一笔奖学金。
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’).