From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishendow somebody/something with something phrasal verb formal1 to make someone or something have a particular quality, or to believe that they have it Her resistance to the Nationalists endowed her with legendary status.2 be endowed with somethingHAVE to naturally have a good feature or quality She was endowed with good looks.3 GIVEto give someone something → well-endowed → endow→ See Verb table
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endow with • Perhaps that early brush with death endowed the villagers with a greater than normal appreciation for the past.• The immediacy of these visionary experiences endows them with a high degree of intensity, but also renders them fleeting and transient.• He was endowed too with a very strong male chemistry.• But it can not be used as a way of endowing anyone with authority where that person had none.• Thus, they are naturally reluctant to endow subordinates with even more independence of action.• Her resistance to Generalissimo Franco's Nationalists endowed her with legendary status.• Perhaps disloyalty to an existing dispensation that has endowed one with one's privileges does look like radical chic.• Vi wished the good Lord had endowed her with size fours, but it wasn't anybody's fault, really.be endowed with something• Though short in stature, Genda was endowed with a strong fighting spirit which was reflected in his hawk-like countenance.• It was endowed with an endless capacity for multiplication and a remorseless urge to advance.• It is political; it is endowed with anger; it is not neutral.• She was endowed with both good looks and brains.• Shakespeare was an adult genius in that he was endowed with it at birth.• It seems to have been against creative law that the female should be endowed with morals.• Such a conclusion to a hunting trip is evidence that the man is endowed with proper male virtue.• He is endowed with specific talents.• Or that they are endowed with superior leadership genes? 