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endow | donner |

As a verb endow

is to furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.

As a noun donner is

thunder.

endow

English

Alternative forms

* indow (archaic)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.
  • To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); — followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.
  • To bestow freely.
  • To be furnished with something naturally.
    • She was'' ''endowed'' ''with a beautiful voice.

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * endowment

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Anagrams

    * * * *

    donner

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (South Africa, slang) To beat up, clobber, thrash
  • * 2005 , , Acid Alex , Zebra Press (2005), ISBN 1770070931, page 167:
    • They went into the pub and started a fight. One that was just bad enough for someone to call the boere. When the gattas arrived they got donnered for their trouble.

    References

    * Cassell's Dictionary of Slang * A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ----