devote

devote is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive 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. transitive verb. To execrate; to curse.
3. transitive 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.
6. verb. dedicate

   "give thought to"

   "give priority to"

   Synonyms: give, pay

7. verb. give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause

   "She committed herself to the work of God"

   "give one's talents to a good cause"

   Synonyms: commit, consecrate, dedicate, give

8. verb. set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use

   "this land was devoted to mining"

Synonyms

give, pay, commit, consecrate, dedicate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in devote:

vetoed

Common word forms

devoted, devoter, devotes, devotees, devoting, devotement

Words from these letters

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