# devote

Pronunciation: say "di-VOHT" US /dɪˈvoʊt/, UK /dɪˈvəʊt/, AUS /dɪˈvəʉt/

## Verb

1. To give your time, effort, or attention entirely to a particular cause, person, or purpose.
   - Simple: To give all your time or effort to something you care about.
   - _He chose to devote his entire career to cancer research._
   - _Researchers devote years to projects that may never succeed._
2. To consign a person or thing over to a destructive fate; to doom.
   - Simple: To leave a person or thing to a terrible fate.
   - _The commander's pride devoted his soldiers to a hopeless last stand._
   - _Legends say the gods devote the arrogant to swift downfall._
3. To call down a curse on someone or something, or to denounce them as hateful.
   - Simple: To call down a curse on someone or something.

## Adjective

4. Deeply committed and loyal; devout or earnestly attached. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Very loyal to someone or something, or very religious.
   - _The abbey housed many devote monks who rose before dawn to pray._
   - _He remained a devote student of the ancient texts all his life._

## Origin

From Latin dēvōtus, the past participle of dēvoveō ("to dedicate by a vow, sacrifice oneself, promise solemnly"). It is a doublet of devow and is related to devout, and it displaced the native Middle English ēstful, from Old English ēstful.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/devote (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).