ENDOWED Definition & Meaning

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endowed

[en-doud]

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adjective

supported by a permanent fund or source of income.
A cooperative owned by 50 families set up the endowed scholarship in 2000.
naturally possessing a certain quality, talent, physical feature, or other advantage, especially a sexually attractive feature.
She bunched up the blouse behind her to look at herself and sighed at her modestly endowed body.
Countries far less endowed than ours have made greater economic progress through greater coherence and unity of purpose.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of endow.

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

unendowed adjective
well-endowed adjective

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of endowed¹

endow ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

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“Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater,” Moran wrote his post, which has been deleted.

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"That’s not what’s interesting about Miller. It’s not brains. It’s bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater."

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In three short minutes, the trio rattled off half a dozen memorable hooks, endowed with the unbreakable bond of their friendship.

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Another place Trump has had his eye on is Greenland - which is endowed with the eighth largest reserves of rare earth elements.

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Because even the robber barons were not that bad; at least they endowed some libraries and foundations and fellowships and had some idea of wanting to pretend to some sort of cultural capital.

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