endue

Meaning

1. (also, figuratively, transitive) Senses relating to covering or putting on.
2. (also, archaic, figuratively, literary, transitive) Senses relating to covering or putting on.
3. (obsolete, rare, transitive) Senses relating to covering or putting on.
4. (literary, transitive) Senses relating to giving some quality or thing.
5. (obsolete, transitive) Senses relating to giving some quality or thing.
6. (obsolete, transitive) Senses relating to giving some quality or thing.
7. (obsolete, transitive) Senses relating to giving some quality or thing.
8. (obsolete, rare, transitive) Senses relating to giving some quality or thing.
9. (obsolete, transitive) Senses relating to directing or leading.
10. (obsolete, rare, transitive) Senses relating to directing or leading.
11. (obsolete, transitive) Senses relating to taking in.
12. (broadly, obsolete, transitive) Senses relating to taking in.
13. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) Senses relating to taking in.
14. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) Senses relating to taking in.

Synonyms

indue

invest

endow

gift

🎁

empower

vest

provide

gird

award

beset

bestow

cater

clothe

confer

costume

deal

deliver

dispense

donate

dress

👗

drive home

enclose

encompass

environ

fasten

garb

give

grant

hand over

imbue

lend

let

pass on

pay

💸

present

put out

render

rig

robe

surround

transfuse

yield

accord

shut in

administer

admit

afford

allot

allow

apply

Translations

dotar

doter

bekleiden

👗

douer

arropar

kleiden

👗

dotar

dotare

dotar

investir

investir

cadeau

🎁

bestücken

regaler

investir

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪnˈdjuː/

Etymology

From both of the following:
* Chiefly sense 1: Late Middle English induen (“to clothe (someone); to assume or take on (an appearance)”), from Latin induere, the present active infinitive of induō (“to put on (clothes, etc.); to assume (a part)”), from indu- (an archaic variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘in; within’)) + *uō (“to put on (clothes, etc.)”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ew- (“to put clothes or shoes on”)).
* Chiefly sense 3 and sense 4: Late Middle English endeuen, enduen (“to endow; to induct or put (someone into office, etc.); (falconry) of a hawk: to pass food from the crop or gorge into the stomach”), from Old French enduire, induire (modern French enduire), from Latin indūcere, the present active infinitive of indūcō (“to bring or lead in; (by extension) to draw over, cover; (figurative) to bring into, establish, initiate; etc.”), from in- (see above) + dūcō (“to draw, pull; to guide, lead; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to draw, pull; to lead”)).
Sense 2 is from a combination of the above. Doublet of induce.