Difference between Endow and Invest

What is the difference between Endow and Invest?

Endow as a verb is to furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution. while Invest as a verb is to clothe or wrap (with garments).

Endow

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution. To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits. To bestow freely. To be furnished with something naturally.

Invest

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To clothe or wrap (with garments).To envelop, wrap, cover.To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.To spend money, time, or energy into something, especially for some benefit or purpose.To ceremonially install someone in some office.To formally give someone some power or authority.To lay siege to.To make investments.To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.

Example sentence: Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

We hope you now know whether to use Endow or Invest in your sentence.

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