Invest

Verb

 * 1) To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
 * 2) To spend money, time, or energy into something, especially for some benefit or purpose.
 * 3) To formally give someone some power or authority.
 * 4) To envelop, wrap, cover.
 * 5) To ceremonially install someone in some office.
 * 6) To lay siege to.
 * : To make investments.
 * 1) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
 * 2)  To clothe or wrap (with garments).

Noun

 * 1)  An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.

Thesaurus
accommodate, afford, allot, anoint, apparel, arm, array, attire, authorize, base, bedeck, bedrape, beleaguer, bequeath, beset, besiege, bless with, blockade, box, budget, build, build in, bundle up, buy in, buy into, case, chair, close, clothe, clothe with power, compass, compass about, consecrate, contribute, cost, cost out, crate, crown, deck, deputize, devote, dight, disburse, donate, dower, drape, dress, dud, embay, embosom, embox, embrace, empower, enable, encapsulate, encase, encircle, enclasp, enclose, enclothe, encompass, endow, endow with, endue, enfold, enlist, enrobe, enroll, enshroud, enthrone, envelop, environ, enwrap, establish, expend, favor with, fill, fill up, financier, find, fix, fork out, found, fund, furnish, garb, garment, give, go around, go round, go through, grace with, ground, habilitate, harass, harry, honor, imbue, inaugurate, incur costs, induct, ingrain, initiate, inoculate, install, instate, invest in, involve, keep, lap, lay out, lay out money, lay siege to, lay the foundation, leaven, maintain, make an investment, make available, make provision for, muffle up, open the purse, ordain, outlay, pack, package, pay, pay out, pitch, place, place in office, plant, plow back into, plunge, prepare, present, provide, provide for, put, put in, put out, put up, rag out, raiment, recruit, reinvest, replenish, risk, robe, run through, schedule, seat, set, set up, settle on, settle upon, sheathe, shell out, shroud, sign on, sign up, sink, sink money in, smother, soften up, speculate, spend, splurge, squander, steep, stock, store, subsidize, suffuse, supply, support, surround, swaddle, swathe, swear in, throne, throw money around, tire, veil, venture, vest, vest with, wrap, wrap about, wrap up, yield

Etymology 1
From investir:, from  investio:, from in-: + vestio: < vestis:; see vest.

Etymology 2
From investigate:, by shortening

Derived terms

 * investable
 * investor


 * investment

Verb

 * Arabic: استثمر
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Anagrams

 * ventis