Verb

• S: (v) invest, put, commit, place (make an investment) "Put money into bonds"
• S: (v) endow, indue, gift, empower, invest, endue (give qualities or abilities to)
• S: (v) invest, clothe, adorn (furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors)
• S: (v) invest, vest, enthrone (provide with power and authority) "They vested the council with special rights"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• antonym
• W: (v) divest [Opposed to: invest] (deprive of status or authority) "he was divested of his rights and his title"; "They disinvested themselves of their rights"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) induct, invest, seat (place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position) "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy"