endue
Verb
Verb Forms: endued, enduing, endues
- To provide someone with a quality, gift, or ability.
- give qualities or abilities to
- Senses relating to covering or putting on.
- Of a person or thing: to take on (a different form); to adopt, to assume.
- Senses relating to covering or putting on.
- To put on (a piece of clothing, etc.); to wear; also (followed by with), to clothe (someone) with something.
- Senses relating to covering or putting on.
- To put (something) on top of a thing; to cover, to overlay.
- Senses relating to giving some quality or thing.
- Followed by with: to invest (someone or something) with a certain power, quality, etc.
- Senses relating to giving some quality or thing.
- Of a quality, etc.: to be inherent in (something).
- Senses relating to giving some quality or thing.
- To supply (someone) with a thing.
- Senses relating to giving some quality or thing.
- Synonym of endow (“to invest (a person, group of people, or institution) with property”).
- Senses relating to giving some quality or thing.
- Synonym of bestow (“to impart (something) gratuitously; to grant”).
- Senses relating to directing or leading.
- To raise or rear (someone); to bring up; also, to educate or instruct (someone).
- Senses relating to directing or leading.
- To bring (something) to a certain condition.
- Senses relating to taking in.
- Of a hawk: originally, to pass (food in the crop or gizzard) into the stomach; later, to digest (food).
- Senses relating to taking in.
- Of a person or animal: to digest (food).
- Senses relating to taking in.
- To take on; to absorb.
- Senses relating to taking in.
- Of food: to be digested.
Examples
- Her years of practice seemed to ENDUE her with an uncanny ability to spot high-scoring Words With Friends plays.
Origin / 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.
Scrabble Score: 6
endue: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordendue: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
endue: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary