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Bestow   /bɪstˈoʊ/   Listen
verb
Bestow  v. t.  (past & past part. bestowed; pres. part. bestowing)  
1.
To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put. "He bestowed it in a pouch." "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?"
Synonyms: To give; grant; present; confer; accord.






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"Bestow" Quotes from Famous Books



... the War Office we know him as one who has given to his country services she cannot hope to reward. For she cannot return to him the years he has lost. She cannot return to him his brother. But she can and will clear the name of Henri Ravignac, and upon his brother Charles bestow promotion and honors." ...
— The Lost Road • Richard Harding Davis

... all the facts, my pious friend, bestow on me the favor of your counsel, and thank heaven that you live remote from ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... discharge. Fertile meadows surround these, and Xochimilco is now, as it was at the time of the Conquest, a "Field of Flowers," which is the meaning of its native nomenclature, not unworthy of the designation of an "earthly paradise," which the modern Mexicans bestow upon it. ...
— Mexico • Charles Reginald Enock

... hundred sounds you could differentiate by spelling, as to say, shih, pronounced like the first three letters in the word shirt in English. That vocable may mean: history, or to employ, or a corpse, a market, a lion, to wait on, to rely upon, time, poetry, to bestow, to proclaim, a stone, a generation, to eat, a house, and all such things as that;—I mention a few out of the list by way of example.* Now of course, were that all to be said about it, Chinamen would no doubt sometimes get confused: would think you meant ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris

... for the days of sore trial, and want, and hunger, and thirst, and destitution which Thou hast been pleased to bestow upon me, for by them have I, even now as I stand on the threshold of life, been enabled, through Thy merciful heartenings, to set at nought the temptations wherewith I ...
— Ringan Gilhaize - or The Covenanters • John Galt


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