invests

Verb

invest (third-person singular simple present invests, present participle investing, simple past and past participle invested)

1. 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. (dated, transitive) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
   • He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To put on (clothing).
   • Cannot find one this girdle to invest!1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 4, canto 5, verse 18

   Synonyms:

   beclothe

4. To envelop, wrap, cover.
   • Night / Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 207-8
5. To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
6. To ceremonially install someone in some office.

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