Devote and Devoting

verb

• Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, commit
• Dedicate.
  • usage: "give thought to"; "give priority to"; "pay attention to"
  • synonyms: give, pay
• Set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use.
  • usage: "this land was devoted to mining"

• (a.) Devoted; addicted; devout.
• (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.
• (v.t.) To execrate; to curse.
• (n.) A devotee.
• (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.