invest

2(a). To spend or devote for future advantage or benefit: 

• invested much time and energy in getting a good education.
  

2(b). To devote morally or psychologically, as to a purpose; commit: 

• "Men of our generation are invested in what they do, women in what we are" Shana Alexander.
  

3. To endow with authority or power.

5. To endow with an enveloping or pervasive quality: 

• "A charm invests a face/Imperfectly beheld" Emily Dickinson.
  

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7. invest with [Usually poetic] to cover, as if with a coat: 

• when spring invests the trees with leaves [Medieval Latin investire to clothe] 

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