endue

verb

in-ˈdü How to pronounce endue (audio)
variants or indue
Definition of enduenext
1
as in to suffuse
to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle professional soldiers endued with an ironclad sense of duty and honor

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2
as in to gift
to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute she's always been endued with an unquenchable optimism

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for endue
  1. suffuse
  2. gift
  3. infuse
  4. bless
  5. imbue
  6. endow
  7. invest
  8. inculcate
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  • At the same time, on a story level, Shōgun was providing the kind of dynastic drama that has suffused recent Emmy favorites from Thrones to Succession to The Crown.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2024
  • For one thing, violent imagery suffuses even normal political rhetoric.
    Washington Post staff, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
Definition of suffuse
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  • John Doman, a Pioneer Press photographer for decades, was gifted in capturing the essence of a moment and displaying humanity in a photograph through his curiosity and compassion.
    Natasha Delion, Twin Cities, 9 Nov. 2024
  • The Sharks will want to take away time and space from these players, forcing them to play in their end and not gifting them the puck in the neutral zone.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
Definition of gift
Verb
  • Beyond showing love to Pam Anderson, Bey also infused the video with a few easter eggs.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The custom signature scent hemp and amber is infused into the vegan bath product collection.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of infuse
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  • Pope Francis seemed to inadvertently bless the New Orleans Saints — which couldn't come at a better time, as the NFL team just excommunicated their head coach.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Fund issuers will need the SEC to bless new types of constructions in order to get a private credit fund approved.
    Jesse Pound, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of bless
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  • The big picture: Fantasy, especially when imbued with elements of romance or retelling a famous myth, is currently one of the best-selling genres in the publishing industry.
    Marina E. Franco (Noticias Telemundo for Axios), Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Catlett’s images of Black women, imbued with reverence and command, fulfilled her desire to reconfigure their identity throughout Modernist culture and to fashion an aesthetic that prioritizes their interior world, social condition, and African lineage.
    Shameekia Shantel Johnson, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of imbue
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  • Jackson and Jacobs have Dawn, here endowed with eldritch powers that infect the rest of Teeth’s female ensemble, become all too powerful.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The narrative arc of Ghosts follows a gentleman mysteriously endowed with supernatural abilities that frighten the residents of a phantom town.
    Ime Ekpo, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of endow
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  • The company acknowledges the risks associated with its business, including the potential for complete loss of capital invested or borrowed.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Han had eventually coaxed him into investing more than ¥3 million — about $20,000 — in a modular-housing start-up.
    Suzanne Seggerman, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of invest
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  • Witness, by Whittaker Chambers This 1952 memoir is still thrust in the hands of budding young conservatives, as a means of inculcating them into the movement.
    Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Sensing such threats, organizations are increasingly creating dedicated structures and processes to inculcate AI ethics proactively.
    Swanand Deodhar, Favour Borokini, Ben Waber, Harvard Business Review, 5 Aug. 2024
Definition of inculcate
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“Endue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/endue. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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