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Thesaurus: devote

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.

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  1. v. t. 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. v. t. To execrate; to curse.
  3. v. t. To give up wholly; to addict; to direct the attention of wholly or compound; to attach; -- often with a reflexive pronoun; as, to devote one's self to science, to one's friends, to piety, etc.
  4. a. Devoted; addicted; devout.
  5. n. A devotee.
  6. v. give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
  7. v. dedicate
  8. v. set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use
  9. v:100 v. set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use