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).

Verb

To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.

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(ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.

* (Bible), (Psalms) xxxvii. 21

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.

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To be profitable for.

To give (something else than money).

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

not paying me a welcome

*

They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

To be profitable or worth the effort.

To discharge an obligation or debt.

To suffer consequences.

Verb

(en verb)

(nautical) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.