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单词 bestow
释义
bestow
verb[Toften passive]
formal
uk
/bɪˈstəʊ/us
/bɪˈstoʊ/
to give something as anhonourorpresent:
赠予；给予
The GeorgeCrossis adecorationthat is bestowedupon/onBritishciviliansforactsofgreatbravery.乔治十字勋章是为了表彰英国平民的英勇行为而颁发的。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to give something to someone
  • giveGive me that dirty plate.
  • offerYour doctor should be able to offer advice.
  • provideThis booklet provides useful information about local services.
  • supplyThe lake supplies the whole town with water.
  • donateFour hundred dollars has been donated to the school book fund.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Giving, providing and supplying
  • accommodate
  • accord
  • administer
  • administration
  • assignment
  • award
  • hand off
  • handsomethingout
  • handsomethingover
  • handsomethinground
  • handoff
  • invest
  • lay
  • passing
  • rebid
  • regift
  • reprovision
  • resource
  • resupply
  • spare
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Related word

bestowal
(Definition ofbestowfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

bestow| American Dictionary

bestow
verb[T]
fml
us
/bɪˈstoʊ/
to give something as anhonororpresent:
The country’shighestmedalwas bestowed upon him forheroism.
(Definition ofbestowfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbestow

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It was, however, bestowed upon him only in the eleventh century and there is no evidence that he ever travelled there.
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It is used tobestowintegrity, or its lack, on a performer, such that an 'authentic' performer exhibits realism, lack of pretence, or the like.
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One is the distinction between the moral impetus to avoid and prevent harm versus the lesser, more confined, impetus tobestowbenefits.
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Further, we have clearly partitioned the sub-controllers (function groups) and bestowed data awareness on them.
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Authority to write concluding narratives is bestowed upon experts, often anonymous ones, with the implication of objectivity and detachment.
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Like keeping a diary, writing a long personal letter bestowed a personal identity that was separate from the official norms.
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Copper coinage was the domestic currency that hitherto had enjoyed a credibility bestowed by its official acceptance.
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External extraction of oil surpluses has bestowed upon the oil rich both internal and regional distributive powers.
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Lexicographers, like poets, seem able tobestowa special blessing on the succeeding generations who carry on the craft.
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If value really is bestowed by the love of others, then these unnoticed things have no value.
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Rather, the opposite is the case: the cultural context bestows meaning on money.
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At once, then, he bestowed the burden of the warriors.
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By the same token, however, if agency is imaginatively bestowed on things, then they can start acting like people.
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It is normal and consequently bestowed with the moral feelings of the norm.
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It is a law that bestows on them a usage right.
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