devote
verb
[ dɪˈvəʊt ]
• give all or most of one's time or resources to (a person or activity).
• "I wanted to devote more time to my family"
Similar:
allocate,
assign,
allot,
commit,
give,
give over,
afford,
apportion,
surrender,
consign,
sacrifice,
pledge,
dedicate,
consecrate,
set aside,
earmark,
reserve,
designate,
spare,
• invoke or pronounce a curse upon.
• "the hostile army was devoted with dire execrations to the gods of war"
Origin:
late 16th century (in the sense ‘dedicate formally, consecrate’): from Latin devot- ‘consecrated’, from the verb devovere, from de- ‘formally’ + vovere ‘to vow’.
