bestow

[Be*stow·]

When you present an honor or gift to someone, you bestow it, which is the same as giving it, but often classier and more respectful.

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To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.

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

Verb
give as a gift

Verb
bestow a quality on; "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"

v. t.
To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.

v. t.
To use; to apply; to devote, as time or strength in some occupation.

v. t.
To expend, as money.

v. t.
To give or confer; to impart; -- with on or upon.

v. t.
To give in marriage.

v. t.
To demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by a reflexive pronoun.

Bestow

Be*stow" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bestowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bestowing.] [OE. bestowen; pref. be- + stow a place. See Stow.] 1. To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put. "He bestowed it in a pouch." Sir W. Scott.

See that the women are bestowed in safety.

2. To use; to apply; to devote, as time or strength in some occupation. 3. To expend, as money. [Obs.] 4. To give or confer; to impart; -- with on or upon.

Empire is on us bestowed.

Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor.

5. To give in marriage.

I could have bestowed her upon a fine gentleman.

6. To demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by a reflexive pronoun. [Obs.]

How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night in his true colors, and not ourselves be seen ?

Syn. -- To give; grant; present; confer; accord.

To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.

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Usage Examples

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

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Other Usage Examples

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.