Word
Devote
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
de-vote
Definition
- 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.
- v. t. - To execrate; to curse.
- 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.
- a. - Devoted; addicted; devout.
- n. - A devotee.
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