invest

1. Verb.  (dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
2. Verb.  To envelop, wrap, cover.
3. Verb.  To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
4. Verb.  To spend money, time, or energy into something, especially for some benefit or purpose.
5. Verb.  To ceremonially install someone in some office.
6. Verb.  To formally give someone some power or authority.
7. Verb.  To lay siege to.
8. Verb.  (intransitive) : To make investments.
9. Verb.  (metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
10. Noun.  (meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.