devote
verb🔊/dɪˈvəʊt/
🔊/dɪˈvəʊt/
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘dedicate formally, consecrate’): from Latin devot- ‘consecrated’, from the verb devovere, from de- ‘formally’ + vovere ‘to vow’.
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they devote | 🔊/dɪˈvəʊt/ 🔊/dɪˈvəʊt/ |
| he / she / it devotes | 🔊/dɪˈvəʊts/ 🔊/dɪˈvəʊts/ |
| past simple devoted | 🔊/dɪˈvəʊtɪd/ 🔊/dɪˈvəʊtɪd/ |
| past participle devoted | 🔊/dɪˈvəʊtɪd/ 🔊/dɪˈvəʊtɪd/ |
| -ing form devoting | 🔊/dɪˈvəʊtɪŋ/ 🔊/dɪˈvəʊtɪŋ/ |