All bestow synonyms
be·stow
B b verb bestow
- give — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- grant — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
- confer — When you confer with someone, you discuss something with them in order to make a decision. You can also say that two people confer.
- hand out — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- lavish — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- bequeath — If you bequeath your money or property to someone, you legally state that they should have it when you die.
- donate — to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause: to donate used clothes to the Salvation Army.
- accord — An accord between countries or groups of people is a formal agreement, for example to end a war.
- apportion — When you apportion something such as blame, you decide how much of it different people deserve or should be given.
- gift — gamete intrafallopian transfer: a laparoscopic process in which eggs are retrieved from an ovary by aspiration and inserted, along with sperm, into the fallopian tube of another woman.
- offer — to present for acceptance or rejection; proffer: He offered me a cigarette.
- devote — If you devote yourself, your time, or your energy to something, you spend all or most of your time or energy on it.
- award — An award is a prize or certificate that a person is given for doing something well.
- favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- impart — to make known; tell; relate; disclose: to impart a secret.
- commit — If someone commits a crime or a sin, they do something illegal or bad.
- present — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
- come through — To come through a dangerous or difficult situation means to survive it and recover from it.
- give away — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- kick in — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- put out — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.