Devote

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1. Verb

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. Verb

To execrate; to curse.

3. Verb

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. Adjective

Devoted; addicted; devout.

5. Noun

A devotee.
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