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Definition of devote verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

devote

verb
 
/dɪˈvəʊt/
 
/dɪˈvəʊt/
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘dedicate formally, consecrate’): from Latin devot- ‘consecrated’, from the verb devovere, from de- ‘formally’ + vovere ‘to vow’.
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they devote
 
/dɪˈvəʊt/
 
/dɪˈvəʊt/
he / she / it devotes
 
/dɪˈvəʊts/
 
/dɪˈvəʊts/
past simple devoted
 
/dɪˈvəʊtɪd/
 
/dɪˈvəʊtɪd/
past participle devoted
 
/dɪˈvəʊtɪd/
 
/dɪˈvəʊtɪd/
-ing form devoting
 
/dɪˈvəʊtɪŋ/
 
/dɪˈvəʊtɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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