endue

Furnish with traits

Endue means to provide or endow with a quality or ability: The office endues its holder with considerable power.

The word is formal and somewhat archaic, appearing most often in religious or literary contexts: endued with grace, endued with wisdom.

It suggests being clothed or invested with something intangible.

bestow

confer

Discuss or bestow

endow · invest · furnish · accord · transmit · entrust · vest · provide · supply · allocate

quality

imbue

Pervade with feeling

  • infuseSaturate by steeping
  • endowProvide with lasting funds
  • giftItem given freely

grace · bless · furnish · provide · talent · aptitude · virtue · attribute · characteristic · trait

empower

enable

Make something feasible

authorize · embolden · capacitate · qualify · arm · prepare · authorize · enhance · uplift · liberate

clothe

invest

Commit resources for gain

  • robeLong loose outer garment
  • vestSleeveless upper-body garment
  • arrayOrdered collection or display

attire · garb · drape · mantle · cloak · vestment · regalia · gown · habit · cassock

Opposites
bestowing versus removing qualities or attributes

enduedivest

Rid of assets

strip · deprive · dispossess · denude · drain

Phrases
Family

endowment, endowments

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Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G