verb
- to deprive of an endowment or to withdraw financial support from an institution
Usage: formal; typically used in institutional contexts
Examples
- The board voted to disendow the controversial research program.
- Economic pressures forced the university to disendow several departments.
- The foundation threatened to disendow the museum if reforms weren’t made.
- Political changes led the government to disendow certain cultural institutions.
- The scandal caused donors to disendow the charity organization.
- They decided to disendow the scholarship fund due to mismanagement.