ENDOWING Synonyms: 81 Similar and Opposite Words

endowing

verb

present participle of endow

as in gifting

to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute a young performer endowed with a great singing voice

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as in funding

to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income a wealthy businessman who endowed several museums

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as in financing

to provide money for the program to bring the arts to inner-city youths is endowed by a grant from the federal government

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defunding

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Recent Examples of endowing The principal donation will go towards endowing the Met’s long-standing internships for undergraduate and graduate students in perpetuity. — News Desk, Artforum, 4 May 2026 This information can indirectly influence national discussions by endowing them with more credibility. — Marlen Bartsch, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026 Through flashbacks and leaps ahead in time, fragmentation and fantasy scenes, the film simulates complexity while endowing its characters with mere crumbs of knowledge and experience. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2026 As public funding for higher education has eroded, universities have increasingly turned to wealthy donors to underwrite major projects and supplement budgets by endowing professorships and research centers. — Yana Van Der Meulen Rodgers, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2026 Nimer explains that following this money isn’t typically as direct as Sylvester endowing a second faculty chair this week in the DCC’s name. — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2026 Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the junta chief Min Aung Hlaing met in Moscow in May to discuss cooperation, endowing the junta with an air of global legitimacy. — Dan Swift, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025 In the past, people would even be buried under the khata porch, endowing the doorway with an important spiritual and ritual significance. — Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025

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Her philanthropy centered heavily on her home region, from the Dollywood Foundation and Imagination Library, a book gifting program that mails free books to children, to disaster relief and education initiatives.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2026
Parton, who died Tuesday at 80, was the consummate business executive behind Dollywood, the mastermind behind a book-gifting program, the philanthropic giant whose donation helped spur the Moderna vaccine for the coronavirus.

— Ethan Beck, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2026

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Mike Coppola | Getty Images Rare Ventures will initially focus on funding the development of new treatments for seven different rare conditions.

— Brad Quick, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Parton invested time and money in causes that were important to her, including funding college tuition and saving bald eagles.

— Maggie Penman, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of funding

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Many view the deals, which Nvidia is financing from its massive cash pile, as creating dangerous interdependencies with the AI business.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
The magnitude of all of Nvidia's financial commitments — from financing to strategic agreements to equity investments — has had Wall Street on edge.

— Zev Fima, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026

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By visiting the Basilica and blessing the new tower, the pope follows in the footsteps of Pope Benedict XVI who in 2010 consecrated the Sagrada Familia.

— Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 10 June 2026
Jimmy Fallon has been blessing the New York Knicks with good humor for decades.

— Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026

Definition of blessing

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Most recently, the Los Padres National Forest issued an order, effective Friday night, establishing an emergency closure for the Monterey Ranger District.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
The expansion of settlements crisscrossing the West Bank threatened the hope of establishing a contiguous Palestinian state there.

— David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of establishing

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In theory, a middle power could choose to stop subsidizing superpowers.

— Wal van Lierop, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Early advertising results within ChatGPT have been promising enough that executives are increasing the number of ads, potentially subsidizing free access for the 92% of ChatGPT’s consumer users who, Friar says, do not pay for a subscription.

— Alex Heath, Time, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of subsidizing

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For some, these new measures promise to weed out AI use in the classroom, whether by discouraging students from relying on LLMs or equipping professors with a foolproof method of identifying its use.

— Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Advertisement Solomon therefore expressed skepticism about equipping thousands of DHS field agents, across the country, with even more advanced surveillance tools.

— Rebecca Schneid, Time, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of equipping

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The bridge’s 22 piers were seismically retrofitted from the water upward in 2002, but the underwater infrastructure supporting the piers hasn’t been renovated or upgraded since the bridge opened to traffic in 1969.

— David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2026
Fewer workers are splitting the cost of supporting a larger, longer-living retired population.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026

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