| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To confer, impart, give, donate or yield.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To concede, vouchsafe or acknowledge. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To extend. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To dispense or allot. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To allow, lend, authorize, permit or admit. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To harmonize or match. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To agree or approve.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Present participle conjugation of the verb bestow.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (bestow) | 1. Present; "bestow an honor on someone".[Wordnet]. 2. Give as a gift.[Wordnet]. 3. Bestow a quality on.[Wordnet]. 4. Present; "The university conferred a degree on its most famous former student, who never graduated"; "bestow an honor on someone".[Wordnet]. 5. To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.[Websters]. 6. To use; to apply; to devote, as time or strength in some occupation.[Websters]. 7. To expend, as money.[Websters]. 8. To give or confer; to impart; -- with on or upon.[Websters]. 9. To give in marriage.[Websters]. 10. To demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by a reflexive pronoun.[Websters]. 11. Base verb from the following inflections: bestowing, bestowed, bestows, bestower, bestowers, bestowingly and bestowedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "BESTOWING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Specialty Definition: BESTOWING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Conferring gratuitously; laying out; applying; depositing in store.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of bestow. (references) | ||
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| Samuel L. Bestow | 3 | Samuel L. Bestow | 3 | |
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