v.
1) ( d ; refl. ) ('to devote') to ~ to (to ~ oneself to a cause)
2) ( D ; tr. ) ('to assign') to ~ to (to ~ funds to a project)
3) ( D ; tr. ) ('to confine') to ~ to (to ~ smb. to a mental hospital; ~ted to prison)
4) ( d ; tr. ) ('to place') (to ~ a child to a relative's care; to ~ a poem to memory; to ~ one's thoughts to paper)
5) ( H ; usu. refl. ; no passive) ('to promise') he ~ted himself to support her parents