(~s, devoting, ~d)
1.
If you ~ yourself, your time, or your energy to something, you spend all or most of your time or energy on it.
He decided to ~ the rest of his life to scientific investigation...
Considerable resources have been ~d to proving him a liar...
She gladly gave up her part-time job to ~ 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 ~ 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 ~d a major section of his massive report to an analysis of US aircraft design...
VERB: V n to n