Usually means: Dedicate time or effort exclusively.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word devote:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. devote: Merriam-Webster
  2. devote: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. devote: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. devote: Collins English Dictionary
  5. devote: Vocabulary.com
  6. Devote, devote: Wordnik
  7. devote: Wiktionary
  8. devote: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. devote: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. devote: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Devote, devote: Dictionary.com
  12. devote: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Devote: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. devote: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. devote: Rhymezone
  16. devote: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. devote: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. devote: FreeDictionary.org
  19. devote: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. devote: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. devote: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. devote: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. devote: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. devote: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (devote)

▸ verb:  to give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter
▸ verb:  to consign over; to doom
▸ verb:  to execrate; to curse
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) devoted; addicted; devout

Similar:
give, commit, pay, dedicate, chiong, give of oneself, make it one's life, sign on, addict, spend time, more...

Opposite:
neglect, ignore, abandon, forsake, overlook

Types:
monk, nun, priest, pastor, rabbi, imam, shaman, shrine maiden, shamaness, more...

Phrases:
devote to, Adoro te devote, to devote time to sb sth, devote yourself, devote and donate, more...

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    crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     ruby,     garnet, more...



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Similar:
give, commit, pay, dedicate, chiong, give of oneself, make it one's life, sign on, addict, spend time, more...

Opposite:
neglect, ignore, abandon, forsake, overlook

Types:
monk, nun, priest, pastor, rabbi, imam, shaman, shrine maiden, shamaness, more...

Phrases:
devote to, Adoro te devote, to devote time to sb sth, devote yourself, devote and donate, save spend devote wasted, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     ruby,     garnet, more...



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