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To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
- We'd like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event.
- 2
To clothe or wrap (with garments).datedtransitive
- He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.
- 3
To put on (clothing).intransitiveobsolete
- Cannot find one this girdle to invest!
- 4
To envelop, wrap, cover.
- Night / Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes
- 5
To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
- 6
To ceremonially install someone in some office.
- 7
To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
- Madam, whatſoeuer you eſteeme Of this ſucceſſe, and loſſe vnualued, Both may inueſt you Empreſſe of the Eaſt: […]
- I do invest you jointly with my power.
- 8
To formally give (power or authority).
- For he saith, if there can be found such an inequality between man and man, as there is between man and beast, or between soul and body, it investeth a right of government: which seemeth rather an impossible case than an untrue sentence.
- 9
To surround, accompany, or attend.
- The scene was not without a mixture of awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt and shame in a fellow-creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering, at it.
- 10
To lay siege to.
- to invest a town
syn. don · dress
ant. divest · disinvest