dedicate
verb/ˈdedɪkeɪt/
/ˈdedɪkeɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they dedicate | /ˈdedɪkeɪt/ /ˈdedɪkeɪt/ |
| he / she / it dedicates | /ˈdedɪkeɪts/ /ˈdedɪkeɪts/ |
| past simple dedicated | /ˈdedɪkeɪtɪd/ /ˈdedɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle dedicated | /ˈdedɪkeɪtɪd/ /ˈdedɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form dedicating | /ˈdedɪkeɪtɪŋ/ /ˈdedɪkeɪtɪŋ/ |
- to give a lot of your time and effort to a particular activity or purpose because you think it is important synonym devote
- dedicate yourself/something to something She dedicates herself to her work.
- dedicate yourself/something to doing something He dedicated his life to helping the poor.
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- dedicate something to somebody to say at the beginning of a book, a piece of music or a performance, or when receiving an award, that you are doing it for somebody, as a way of thanking them or showing respect
- This book is dedicated to my parents.
- I want to dedicate this award to my first music teacher, Ben Gould.
- to hold an official ceremony to say that a building or an object has a special purpose or is special to the memory of a particular person
- dedicate something The chapel was dedicated in 1880.
- dedicate something to somebody/something A memorial stone was dedicated to those who were killed in the war.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘devote to sacred use by solemn rites’): from Latin dedicat- ‘devoted, consecrated’, from the verb dedicare.
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