bestow
verb
[ bɪˈstəʊ ]
• confer or present (an honour, right, or gift).
• "the office was bestowed on him by the monarch of this realm"
Similar:
confer on,
present to,
award to,
give,
grant,
vouchsafe,
accord to,
afford to,
vest in,
invest in,
bequeath to,
donate to,
allot to,
assign to,
consign to,
apportion to,
distribute to,
impart to,
entrust to,
commit to,
lavish on,
heap on,
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘use for, devote to’): from be- (as an intensifier) + Old English stōw ‘place’.
