DEVOTE


Meaning of DEVOTE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪvoʊt ]

( devotes, devoting, devoted)

1.

If you devote yourself, your time, or your energy to something, you spend all or most of your time or energy on it.

He decided to devote the rest of his life to scientific investigation...

Considerable resources have been devoted to proving him a liar...

She gladly gave up her part-time job to devote herself entirely to her art.

= dedicate

VERB : V n to n / -ing , V n to n / -ing , V pron-refl to n / -ing

2.

If you devote a particular proportion of a piece of writing or a speech to a particular subject, you deal with the subject in that amount of space or time.

He devoted a major section of his massive report to an analysis of US aircraft design...

VERB : V n to n

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