Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive verb
To execrate; to curse.
- 3transitive 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.
- 4adjective
Devoted; addicted; devout.
- 5noun
A devotee.
- 6verb
dedicate
"give thought to"
"give priority to"
- 7verb
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"
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- 8verb
set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use
"this land was devoted to mining"
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