Bestow

Definitions: Bestow

Bestow

Verb

1. Present; "The university conferred a degree on its most famous former student, who never graduated"; "bestow an honor on someone".

2. Give as a gift.

3. Of a quality, as in: "Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company"; "The music added a lot to the play"; "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings"; "This adds a light note to the program".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bestow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Bestow \Be*stow"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Bestowed; present participle verb or noun Bestowing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Bestow

Giving

Give, bestow, confer, grant, accord, award, assign.

Marriage

Verb: marry, wive, take to oneself a wife; be married, be spliced; go off, pair off; wed, espouse, get hitched, lead to the hymeneal altar, take "for better for worse", give one's hand to, bestow one's hand upon.

Receiving

Not given, unbestowed; (see give, bestow; ).

Thought

Verb: think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate, consider, deliberate; bestow thought upon, bestow consideration upon; speculate, contemplate, meditate, ponder, muse, dream, ruminate; brood over, con over; animadvert, study; bend -, apply mind; (attend); digest, discuss, hammer at, weigh, perpend; realize, appreciate; fancy; (imagine); trow.

Crosswords: Bestow

Poirot, madame, Poirotpucker your lips as if about to bestow a kiss! (Evil Under the Sun; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Anthony Shaffer)

Why didn't you bestow this honor on some other girl out there? (From the Terrace; writing credit: Ernest Lehman; John O'Hara)

Your cries and screams are the greatest gifts you can bestow upon me! (Vampire Hunter: The Animated Series; writing credit: Trish Ledoux; Tatsuhiko Urahata)

Knowledge and power are yours to bestow. ("One With Darkness"; performing artist: Cher)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And this is the power men generally have to bestow their estates on those who please them best; the possession of the father being the expectation and inheritance of the children, ordinarily in certain proportions, according to the law and custom of each country; yet it is commonly in the father's power to bestow it with a more sparing or liberal hand, according as the behaviour of this or that child hath comported with his will and humour. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Pakistan

In June 1947, the British Government declared that it would bestow full dominion status upon two successor states -- India and Pakistan. (references)

South Africa

There are, however, a number of firms that enjoy a degree of protection through direct or indirect allowances from the government that bestow upon them a financial advantage over private entities. (references)

Human Rights

Tanzania

The People's Militia Laws bestow quasi-legal status on the traditional Sungusungu neighborhood and village anticrime groups. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "bestow": bestow a favor ♦ bestow a favour ♦ bestow a title on smb. ♦ bestow an award upon ♦ bestow hand on smb. ♦ bestow honor ♦ bestow one's hand upon ♦ bestow upon. Additional references.

Albanian

jap (accord, adjudge, administer, afford, allow, assign, award, bear, come through, concede, deliver, dish, dispense, furnish, get through, give, give in, hand in, impart, land, lend, pay, present, produce, provide, reach, throw, vouchsafe, yield), dhuroj (award, donate, give, give away, grant, present, remember). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منح (accord, afford, allow, award, bless with, concede, confer, contribute to, donate, endow, endue, favor with, favour with, gift with, give, grant, granting, present, presentation), ‏وهب (donate, endow, endue, give, give away, yield), ‏وضع (accentuate, affix, apply, bin, clap, conjuncture, dab, design, do, emplacement, estate, frame, install, job, lay, lay down, lay out, manner, outline, perch, place, placement, plant, posit, position, positioning, posture, put, put down, put up, rank, return, set, set back, situation, status, stick down, stuff, tuck, utter, writing), ‏إستعمل (anticipate, employ, ply, spend, use), ‏أعطى (afford, award, bear, deign, give, hand, mete, vouchsafe). (various references)

Bulgarian 

награждавам (award, decorate, grace, recognize, reward), приютявам (harbour, haver, home), прилагам (adjoin, administer, apply, attach, carry out, enclose, enforce, execute, join, practice, practise, pursue, put through, subjoin), подарявам (donate, gift, give, give away, grant, present). (various references)

Chinese 

賚 (confer, thief), 賜 (confer, grant), 貺 (confer), � 送 (Bestowed, Bestowing). (various references)

Czech

uložit (collocate, deposit, ensconce, house, impose, inflict, input, keep, land with, pack off, place, put to bed, save, seat, Stow), udìlit (award, cap, confer, give, grant, impart, invest, vest), propùjèit (impart). (various references)

Farsi 

ارزانی داشتن(باonیاupno), بخشیدن (Betake, Condone, Dispense, Donate, Forgive, Give, Giveaway, Grant, Indulgence, Pardon, Pleasure, Portion, Privilege, Remit, Spare, Vouchsafe). (various references)

Finnish

suoda (afford, allow, give, grant), lahjoittaa (donate, endow, give, present). (various references)

French

utiliser, octroyer, employer, donner, consacrer, conférer, accorder (be in tune). (various references)

German

bekleiden (attire, clothe, cover, dress, endue, fill, hold, occupy, take, vest), zuwenden (devote, give, to turn towards), zuteil werden lassen, zuerkennen (accord, adjudge, adjudicate, award, confer, dictate, grant, impose, inflict), verstauen (load, pile, store, Stow, stowage, stowing, to brace, to secure, to stow), verleihen (award, borrow, confer, give, hire, hire out, impart, lend, lend out, loan, rent, rent out, to lend), unterbringen (accommodate, fit in, fix up, get in, house, Lodge, place, put, put up, quarter, settle, situate, to accommodate, to host, to house), schenken (bestowal, donate, endow, give, give as a gift, give as a present, present), gewähren (accord, afford, bestowal, deign, extend, furnish, give, grant, impart, to accord, to afford, to allow, to deign, to grant, vouchsafe), erweisen (accord, extend, give, prove, render, show). (various references)

Greek 

παραχωρώ (allot, allow, cede, concede, grant, resign, vouchsafe, yield). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ק� ות (designate, give possession, hand over, impart, transfer), ל�"ע� יק (accord, award, confer, endow, grant, present). (various references)

Hungarian

ráruház (to delegate, to delgate powers, to vest), ad (accord, administer, gave, give, hand, inflict, provide, to afford, to allot, to concede, to contribute, to extend, to furnish, to gift, to indenture, to inflict, to provide, to render). (various references)

Indonesian

mengaruniai (favour), menganugerahkan (award, confer), melimpahkan (cause something ti spill over, give something generously, shower). (various references)

Italian

tributare (grant, render), depositare (check, deposit, deposit copies, lodge, pay in, plant, register, store, to store, to warehouse), dare (accord, administer, allow, cast, debit, debtor side, give, grant, hand, hold forth, liabilities side, put, set, to give, yield), conferire (award, confer, confer with, discuss with, give), concedere (accord, admit, allow, approve, concede, confer, deign, grant, yield). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

賜る (to bestow, to grant). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たまう (to award, to bestow, to grant, to receive), たまわる (to bestow, to grant). (various references)

Manx

feoiltaghey (endow, endowment). (various references)

Norwegian

skjenke (give, grant), gi (accord, allow, give, hand, inflict, yield). (various references)

Pig Latin

estowbay

Portuguese

outorgar (accord, concede, confer, grant, vouchsafe), guardar (bin, bosom, coffer, coffin, conserve, defend, guard, keep, lay up bare, look after, maintain, observe, preserve, protect, put, put away, reserve, retain, save, shield, Stow, tend, tuck, watch over), conferir (accord, accredit, check, check over, collate, compare, confer, grant, supervise, verify), conceder (accord, adjudge, afford, allow, award, concede, deign, give, grant, impart, vouchsafe, yield), colocar (clap, collocate, dispose, lay, lay down, locate, pitch, placatory, place, plant, pose, position, post, put, put down, set, ship, stick, to invest), aplicar (adhibit, administer, administrate, apply, cob, enframe, give over, invest, place, practice, put, put on, put onto, throw, to apply). (various references)

Romanian

transmite (assign, carry, circulate, communicate, confer, consign to, convey, deliver, deliver over, demise, devolve, give, hand, pass, perpetuate, record, refer, remit, render, send, transfer, transfuse, transmit), pune la pãstrare, depozita (deposit, garner, leave, settle, store, warehouse), da (accord, administer, afford, avail, beat, bind, deal, deliver, deliver up, extend, fetch, find, gift, give, give away, grant, hallo, hand, inflict, launch, lend, offer, pass, pay, push, reach, render, restore, return, sell, send, set, sound, sprout, yea, yes, yield), aşeza (arrange, bed, beset, build, collocate, dispose, encase, establish, fall, fix, impose, lay, lay down, place, position, put, put down, put on, repose, seat, set, settle, situate, stack, stand, stick, Stow, subside). (various references)

Russian 

дарить (donate, give, give away, grant, handsel, present, remember), давать (administer, afford, allow, downplay, gave, give, give to, impart, lend, let, present). (various references)

Scottish

b� irig, tiomain (bequeath), tìodhlaic (bury), p� irtich (divide, impart). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokloniti (donate, handsel, present), dodeliti (allocate, allot, assign, award, confer, endue, give, grant, vest), darovati (donate). (various references)

Spanish

otorgar (accord, adjudge, award, confer, execute, give, grant), hacer (accomplish, achieve, act, administer, advance, ask, be, bind, bring, bring in, build, carry out, cause, come, commit, compose, compound, create, cut, cut out, do, draw, drive, drop, effect, emit, enter into, enter up, fabricate, force, form, generate, get, get out, give, go at, hole, keep, knock out, lay, lean, level, light, live, live through, lumber, lure on, make, make into, make up, making, observe, offer, pack, pass, pay, perform, perpetrate, place, poke, prosecute, pull, punch, put, put forward, put out, put up, render, set off, tackle, take, take on, think up, throw, throw in, throw out, throw up, tie, to do, to make, to make into, travel, turn out, wet, work, work out), dedicar (dedicate, devote, expend, give, give over, give up, inscribe, light, put in, throw), dar de (back on to, fleer, tell off, tender, touch), conferir (award, confer, vest), colocar (adjust, collocate, dispose, embattle, employ, enrol, go in, install, invest, lay, lay down, locate, Lodge, marry off, perch, pitch, place, plant, play, posit, position, put, put down, put up, seat, set, set up, settle, situate, stand, station, Stow, to invest, tune). (various references)

Swedish

skänka (accord, afford, confer, donate, gift, give, give away, impart, lend), ägna (apply, dedicate, devote). (various references)

Thai

ให้ (give). (various references)

Turkish

bağışlamak (absolve, dispense, donate, endow, excuse, forgive, give away, give to charity, grant, hand out, hand over, have mercy, instate, kick in, pardon, remit, save), yerine koymak (case, clap, posit, put back, put up, relay, replace, slot into, spot), vermek (accord, adduce, adjudge, administer, allow, assign, award, bear, bring, bring in, cede, charter, come across with, confer, contribute, dedicate, deliver, deliver up, dispose of, distribute, donate, endow, extend, furnish, give, give away, give in, grant, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, impart, inflict, inoculate, insert, instate, lend, let, let out, offer, pass, pass in, place, present, produce, put up, reach, render, serve, tender, throw, yield), hediye etmek (donate, give, give as a gift, make smb. a present of, present smb. with smth., present smth. to). (various references)

Ukranian 

віддавати (cede, give away, give back, yield), нагороджувати (award, grace, guerdon, reward), присвячувати (addict, consecrate, dedicate, devote, inscribe, vow), дарувати (confer, donate, entail, gift, give, grant, handsel, present). (various references)

Welsh

rhoi (afford, ascribe, give, put, yield), cyflwyno (dedicate, present), anrhegu (give, present). (various references)

administrabuntur, administrantem, administrantes, administraretur, administrasset, administrat, adsignavero, adsignavit, dependente, dependentia, dona, donabas, donabis, donabo, donans, donantes, donare, donaret, donari, donasti, donat, donata, donate, donati, donatis, donatum, donaverat, donaveris, donaverit, donavi, donavit, donet, donetis, dono, dotare, gratificavit, inpertiar, inpertientes, inpertire, largior, oblata, oblati, oblatis, oblatos, oblatum, oblaturi, oblatus, obtulerant, obtulerat, obtulere, obtulerint, obtuleris, obtulerit, obtuleritis, obtulerunt, obtuleruntque, obtuli, obtulimus, obtulissent, obtulisset, obtulisti, obtulistis, obtulit, obtulitque, offer, offeram, offeramus, offerant, offerantur, offeras, offerat, offeratis, offeratur, offerebant, offerebantur, offerebat, offerebatur, offerenda, offerendas, offerendo, offerendum, offerens, offerent, offerentem, offerentes, offerenti, offerentibus, offerentium, offerentur, offeres, offeret, offeretis, offeretisque, offeretque, offeretur, offerimus, offero, offerre, offerrent, offerrentur, offerret, offerretur, offerri, offers, offert, offerte, offertis, offertur, offerunt, offeruntur, perhibeam, perhibebat, perhibebit, perhibemus, perhibens, perhibent, perhibente, perhibentibus, perhibeo, perhiberet, perhibes, perhibet, perhibetis, perhibui, perhibuisti, perhibuit, tribu, tribuam, tribuat, tribuatur, tribue, tribuebam, tribuebat, tribuendo, tribuens, tribuerat, tribuerit, tribuet, tribui, tribuisti, tribuit, tribuitis, tribuo, tributa, tributi, tributis, tributo, tributorum, tributum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "bestow": bestowal, bestowals, bestowed, bestowing, bestows. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bestow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aberthow, Bashow, basow, Bastow, Becow, benslow, berto, Bertop, Beston, Betson, Busto, estow. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: besot, bowse.

-2 letters: best, bets, bots, bows, obes, owes, owse, stew, stob, stow, swob, swot, tews, toes, tows, twos, webs, west, wets, woes, wost, wots.

-3 letters: bet, bos, bot, bow, obe, oes, ose, owe, set, sew, sob, sot, sow, tew, toe, tow, two, web, wet, woe, wos, wot.

-4 letters: be, bo, es, et, oe.

+1 letter: bestows, bestrow.

+2 letters: bestowal, bestowed, bestrown, bestrows, blowiest, brownest, snowbelt, stowable, sweatbox, teabowls, wombiest.

+3 letters: bellworts, bentwoods, bestowals, bestowing, bestrowed, blowsiest, blowtubes, blowziest, bobwhites, browbeats, browniest, downbeats, snowbelts, tubeworks, westbound, wobbliest.

+4 letters: basketwork, bestrowing, billowiest, breastwork, brownstone, deathblows, powerboats, showboated, subnetwork, sweatboxes, warbonnets, whaleboats, workbasket, worktables.

+5 letters: basketworks, blowtorches, breastworks, brownstones, butterworts, cobwebbiest, subnetworks, timberworks, unbeknownst, whereabouts, whiteboards, workbaskets.

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