endow with
phrasal verbendow somebody/something with something (formal)
- to believe or imagine that somebody/something has a particular quality
- She had endowed Marcus with the qualities she wanted him to possess.
- My imagination endowed Constantinople with all the magic of the East.
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- to give something to somebody/something
- to endow somebody with a responsibility