Devote is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEVOTE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to give oneself wholly to
• use a certain amount of space or time to cover (a topic)
• invoke or pronounce a curse upon
• apply or dedicate to a particular purpose
• To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames.
• To execrate; to curse.
• To give up wholly; to addict; to direct the attention of wholly or compound; to attach; -- often with a reflexive pronoun; as, to devote one\'s self to science, to one\'s friends, to piety, etc.
• give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
• set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use
• give all or most of one's time or resources to (a person or activity)
NOUN:
• A devotee.
ADJECTIVE:
• Devoted; addicted; devout.

Words related to DEVOTE

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Words that contain DEVOTE

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How to use DEVOTE in a sentence

• The plan was to devote her fortune, which had become considerable, to the construction and endowment of an asylum for the aged, to be called Rougon Asylum.
• If no friend were available for the purpose, the butler had to devote an hour a day to throwing the ball in the given direction.
• It is only natural that Aniela should devote her time to her mother, and yet I fancy she does it partly to avoid being alone with me.
• This interest in the Jews led Eliza to devote much, labor, during several years, in collecting information relating to their history since the Christian era.
• He passed his medical examinations at Leipzig University at the age of twenty-one, but decided, instead of becoming a doctor, to devote himself to physical science.
• We both devote ourselves to labor, but the object of the labor and the mode of the labor are different.
• They also devote great attention to the study of the works of the ancients and select from them those things that are profitable for soul and body.
• Davager said he should devote to his amusement, and asked me what sights were to be seen in the neighborhood of the town.
• But neither she nor her fellow-laborers had much time to devote exclusively to social intercourse.
• Rather than be a burden on her parents, Priscilla goes to London to find domestic employment, and to devote her earnings to the assistance of her father and mother.
• But the hero would be the one character to whom she would devote the concentrated effort of her mind.
• My chief attention I devote to artists, whom I can, perhaps, assist in their difficult, but glorious, profession.
• He felt it to be his duty to devote himself thenceforth to his unhappy sister.
• Devote Monday and Tuesday to doing Switzerland, and get into Rome by Thursday morning, taking the Italian lakes en route.
• Whatever sums she might devote to her personal pleasures, her prodigal husband would not call in question.
• If ye believed more in life, then would ye devote yourselves less to the momentary.
• They try to go deep in any subject they take up, and once they are convinced of its truth are ready to devote all their life to it.
• Moreover, she was aware that Lady Glencora could not devote herself especially to any such guest as she was.
• This chapter we shall devote to a consideration of different classes of individuals and the best methods of inducing in them favorable decision and action.
• But the time I intended to devote to talking with you on this subject for to-day is expired.
• The individual will really devote more time and attention to his pursuits.
• Long have I felt it, long wished to devote myself to her and to my uncle, and this charge has confirmed me in my resolution.
• Sulpice, which consists of two houses, one in Paris and the other at Issy, where the students devote two years to philosophy.
• John Knightley seemed early to devote himself to the business of being agreeable.
• She gave a savage duck at the man and started violently, so that James was forced to release Clemency and devote his entire attention to driving.
• A week is a short time to devote to seeing all that this queen city has that is interesting, and that included every day we spent there.
• As the metals of this group are very rare ones, especially the last four ones, we shall not devote an especial division to each of them.
• We now devote to the conquest of nature what we once devoted to the conquest of men.

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