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Invested vs Incested - What's the difference?

invested | incested |

As verbs the difference between invested and incested

is that invested is (invest) while incested is (incest).

invested

English

Verb

(head)
  • (invest)

    • invest

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) investir, from (etyl) ; see vest.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
    • He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.
  • (obsolete) To put on (clothing).
  • * Spenser
    • cannot find one this girdle to invest
  • To envelop, wrap, cover.
  • * 1667': Night / '''Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 207-8
  • To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
  • To spend money, time, or energy into something, especially for some benefit or purpose.
    • We'd like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event.
  • To ceremonially install someone in some office.
  • To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I do invest you jointly with my power.
  • To formally give (power or authority).
  • * Francis Bacon
    • It investeth a right of government.
  • To surround, accompany, or attend.
  • * Hawthorne
    • awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt
  • To lay siege to.
    • to invest a town
  • To make investments.
  • (metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
    • Derived terms
    * investable * investor * investment

    Etymology 2

    From , by shortening

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.

    • Anagrams

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    incested

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (incest)
  • * 2009 , Antonino Ferro, The Analytic Field: A Clinical Concept - Page 206
    • Her erotic transference ultimately devolved into a revelation that she had been consistently incested by her brother
  • * 1994 , Interpretive Approaches to Interpersonal Communication, Kathryn Carter
    • I do not want anyone to feel that my lesbianism is a result of being incested.
  • * 2011 , Marvin Mengeling, Crows, Pete Rose, UFOs: And Other Pretty Pieces - Page 2