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endow (someone or something) with (something)

1. To bestow a monetary donation on someone or something. A wealthy benefactor has endowed the college with a new scholarship.

2. To give or contribute something to someone or something. Rachel's absence this year really endowed the event with a degree of sadness.

endowed with (something)

Having a certain innate attribute or trait. Meredith has been endowed with so much confidence—I wish I could just hop up on stage like her.

endow someone or something with something

1. . to give something to someone or something. We endowed her with the courage she needed to do the job. Gerald endowed the proceedings with a distinctive atmosphere.

2. to provide someone or something with a large sum of money that will provide income. I will endow my alma mater with some of my fortune. The family endowed a chair in the humanities at the university.

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Beachy notes that endowing plants with viral-coat-protein genes resembles a long-standing agricultural practice known as classical cross protection, in which scientists inoculate plants with a mild viral strain to prevent a more pathogenic strain from overwhelming a crop.

Plant breeders have already contributed to such "nutritional erosion" by endowing tomatoes with genes for uniform ripening, "self pruning" and other commercially beneficial traits that significantly decrease vitamin C content, Doyle says.

Please pass the genes: experts weigh worries of engineered ills in new food crops

French oil and gas company Total would be endowing in the shale gas industry in Britain.

United Kingdom : TOTAL to endow in shale gas industry in BRITAIN

The stage-agnostic investor would also seek at endowing in wearable technology companies throughout the world as they touch the entire spectrum of computing.

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