meaning of devote
1. To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames.
2. To execrate; to curse.
3. To give up wholly; to addict; to direct the attention of wholly or compound; to attach; -- often with a reflexive pronoun; as, to devote ones self to science, to ones friends, to piety, etc.
4. Devoted; addicted; devout.
5. A devotee.
6. dedicate; "give thought to"; "give priority to"; "pay attention
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Related Words
devote | devoted | devotedly | devotedness | devotee | devotement | devoter |
