reendow

verb

re·​en·​dow (ˌ)rē-in-ˈdau̇ 

-en-

variants or re-endow

reendowed or re-endowed; reendowing or re-endowing

transitive verb

1

: to endow (someone or something) again

reendowing the country with a sense of security

He also tried to reendow the nobility with the power that Louis XIV had snatched from it.

—Virginia Cowles

2

: to provide an endowment for (something) again

a campaign to reendow the university

Word History

First Known Use

1607, in the meaning defined at sense 2