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Synonyms of the word 
INVEST → ADORN - CLOTHE - COMMIT - DROP - EMPOWER - ENABLE - ENDOW - ENDUE - ENTHRONE - EQUIP - EXPEND - FIT - GIFT - INDUCT - INDUE - INSTALL - OUTFIT - PLACE - PUT - SEAT - SPEND - VESTinvest- v. To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
- v. (dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
- v. (obsolete) To put on (clothing).
- v. To envelop, wrap, cover.
- v. To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
- v. To ceremonially install someone in some office.
- v. To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
- v. To formally give (power or authority).
- v. To surround, accompany, or attend.
- v. To lay siege to.
- v. (intransitive) To make investments.
- v. (metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand…
- n. (meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant…
adorn- v. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
- n. (obsolete) adornment.
clothe- v. (transitive) To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
- v. (figuratively) To cover or invest, as if with a garment.
commit- v. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; — used with to, unto.
- v. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
- v. (transitive) to have enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
- v. To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
- v. To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
- v. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally…
- v. (computing) To make a set of changes permanent.
- v. (obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
- n. (computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository),…
drop- n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
- n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
- n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
- n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
- n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
- n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
- n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
- n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- n. (American football) A dropped pass.
- n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
- n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
- n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
- n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
- n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
- n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
- n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
- n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
- n. (architecture) A gutta.
- n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
- n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
- n. A drop press or drop hammer.
- n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
- v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
- v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
- v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
- v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
- v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
- v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
- v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
- v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
- v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
- v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
- v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
- v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
- v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
- v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
- v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
- v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
- v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
- v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
- v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
- v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
- v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
- v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
- v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
- v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
- v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
- v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
- v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
- v. To give birth to.
- v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
- v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
empower- v. (transitive) To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.
- v. (transitive) To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to…
enable- v. To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
- v. To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities,…
- v. To allow a way out or excuse for an action.
- v. To activate a function of an electronical or mechanical device.
endow- v. (archaic, transitive) To provide with a dower.
- v. (transitive) To provide with money or other benefits, as a permanent fund for support.
- v. (transitive, followed by "with"or, rarely, by "of") To enrich or furnish with something as a gift, quality…
- v. (transitive, usually in passive) To be furnished with something naturally.
endue- v. (obsolete) To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb.
- v. To take on, to take the form of.
- v. To clothe (someone with something).
- v. To invest (someone) with a given quality, property etc.; to endow.
enthrone- v. (transitive) To put on the throne in a formal installation ceremony called enthronement, equivalent to…
- v. (transitive, figuratively) To help a candidate to the succession of a monarchy (as a kingmaker does),…
equip- v. (transitive) To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever…
- v. (transitive) To dress up; to array; accouter.
- v. (transitive) To prepare (someone) with a skill.
expend- v. (transitive) to consume, exhaust (some resource).
- v. (transitive, rare, of money) to spend, disburse.
fit- adj. Suitable, proper.
- adj. Adapted to a purpose or environment.
- adj. In good shape; physically well.
- adj. (Britain, slang) Good looking, fanciable, attractive, beautiful.
- adj. Prepared; ready.
- v. (transitive) To be suitable for.
- v. (transitive) To conform to in size and shape.
- v. (intransitive) To be of the right size and shape.
- v. (transitive, with to) To make conform in size and shape.
- v. (transitive) To be in agreement with.
- v. (transitive) To adjust.
- v. (transitive) To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
- v. (transitive) To equip or supply.
- v. (transitive) To make ready.
- v. (intransitive, archaic) To be seemly.
- v. To be proper or becoming.
- v. (intransitive) To be in harmony.
- n. The degree to which something fits.
- n. Conformity of elements one to another.
- n. The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
- n. (advertising) how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
- n. (statistics) goodness of fit.
- n. (archaic) A section of a poem or ballad.
- n. A seizure or convulsion.
- n. (medicine) A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
- n. A sudden outburst of emotion.
- n. A sudden burst (of an activity).
- v. (intransitive, medicine) To suffer a fit.
gift- n. Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.
- n. A talent or natural ability.
- n. Something gained incidentally, without effort.
- n. The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing.
- v. (transitive) To give as a gift or donation.
- v. (transitive) To give away, to concede easily.
induct- v. to bring in as a member; to make a part of.
- v. to formally or ceremoniously install in an office, position, et cetera.
- v. to introduce into (particularly if certain knowledge or experience is required, such as ritual adulthood…
- v. to draft into military service.
- v. (obsolete) to introduce; to bring in.
indue- v. Alternative form of endue.
install- n. (computing) A computer software utility that is run to install a software application. Also used attributively.
- n. (informal) an installation. (Usage originated as a truncated form of the word installation.).
- v. (transitive) To connect, set up or prepare something for use.
- v. (transitive) To admit formally into an office, rank or position.
- v. (transitive) To establish or settle in.
outfit- n. A set of clothing (with accessories).
- n. Gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose.
- n. Any cohesive group of people; a unit; such as a military company.
- n. (informal) A business or firm.
- n. (sports) A sports team.
- n. (statistics) An outlier-sensitive fit.
- v. (transitive) To provide with, usually for a specific purpose.
place- n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
- n. A location or position in space.
- n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
- n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
- n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
- n. A frame of mind.
- n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
- n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
- n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
- n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
- n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
- n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
- v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
- v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
- v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
- v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
- v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
- v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
- v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
- v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
put- v. To place something somewhere.
- v. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
- v. (finance) To exercise a put option.
- v. To express something in a certain manner.
- v. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.).
- v. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
- v. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
- v. To attach or attribute; to assign.
- v. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
- v. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
- v. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
- v. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
- n. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
- n. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
- n. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
- n. An old card game.
- n. (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
- n. (obsolete) A prostitute.
seat- n. Something to be sat upon.
- n. A location or site.
- n. The starting point of a fire.
- n. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
- v. (transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
- v. (transitive) To provide with places to sit.
- v. (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
- v. (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one…
- v. (transitive) To assign the seats of.
- v. (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down.
- v. To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
- v. To put a seat or bottom in.
spend- v. To pay out (money).
- v. To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- v. (dated) To squander.
- v. To exhaust, to wear out.
- v. To consume, to use up (time).
- v. (dated, intransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
- v. (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
- v. To be diffused; to spread.
- v. (mining) To break ground; to continue working.
- n. Amount spent (during a period), expenditure.
- n. (pluralized) expenditures; money or pocket money.
- n. Discharged semen.
- n. Vaginal discharge.
vest- n. (now rare) A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.
- n. (now Canada, US) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part…
- n. (Britain) A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
- n. A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports…
- n. Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
- n. A vestment.
- n. Clothing generally; array; garb.
- v. To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass…
- v. To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed…
- v. To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another;…
- v. (obsolete) To invest; to put.
- v. (law) To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future…
- v. (commonly used of financial arrangements) To become vested, to become permanent.
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