[dɪˈvəʊt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- give all or most of one's time or resources to (a person or activity)
(e.g: I wanted to devote more time to my family)

- invoke or pronounce a curse upon
(e.g: the hostile army was devoted with dire execrations to the gods of war)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 16th century (in the sense ‘dedicate formally, consecrate’): from Latin devot- ‘consecrated’, from the verb devovere, from de- ‘formally’ + vovere ‘to vow’