Endow vs Ingrain - What's the difference?
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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.
To make something deeply part of something else, either literally or figuratively.
Dyed with grain, or kermes.
Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
Endow is a related term of ingrain.
As verbs the difference between endow and ingrain
is that 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 while ingrain is to make something deeply part of something else, either literally or figuratively.As an adjective ingrain is
dyed with grain, or kermes.As a noun ingrain is
an ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.endow
English
Alternative forms
* indow (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- She was'' ''endowed'' ''with a beautiful voice.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* endowmentAnagrams
* * * *ingrain
English
Verb
(en verb)- The dirt was deeply ingrained in the carpet.
- The lessons I learned at school were firmly ingrained in my mind.