to dedicate

Examples

• All

• I could get that good, but I would have to dedicate my life to it.

• Cohen works as a volunteer for 826Chi, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting student writing skills.

  Academic text (2015)

• Women who dedicated their lives to their faith.

  The Nun II (2023)

• I dedicated myself to you.

  Maybe I Do (2023)

• As a group, they decided to dedicate 10 minutes a day to the development of number sense.

  Academic text (2012)

• We said that we were going to dedicate our lives to... to ending war, to bringing peace to the world?

  Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)

• Elliott wanted to dedicate his life to helping other people.

  Beyond Borders (2003)

• It is rather for us, the living, to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us.

  Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies (2012)

• Protestant missionaries were dedicated to spreading the word of God in foreign and inhospitable climes.

  Academic text (2012)

• Every time we vote, we are standing up side by side with the founding fathers, with the men of Valley Forge, with Patriots and pioneers throughout our history, with all those who dedicated their lives to making this a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people.

  2000 Mules (2022)

Synonyms

F

to focus on

vsto dedicate

∞ 2.0

Give most attention and effort to one person or task

requires total giving of time or self rather than mainly focused attention

G

to give

vsto dedicate

∞ 1.0

To offer time, effort, or money to help others

suggests doing that fully and with lasting commitment rather than casually

C

to concentrate

vsto dedicate

543 3.4

To give all your attention to one thing

focuses on full giving of time or self, not only intense attention

C

to concentrate on

vsto dedicate

354 3.1

Give your full attention to one activity or subject

requests complete devotion of time or self, beyond concentrated attention alone

C

to commit

vsto dedicate

345 3.4

To give time, money, or effort to something

involves wholehearted giving rather than a partial or temporary pledge

D

to devote

vsto dedicate

286 3.7

Give time, effort and money to a person, project or cause

implies giving those things completely and as a full commitment

C

to consecrate

vsto dedicate

• Formal

15 7.4

To make a place or person holy by a ceremony

means giving fully for a cause but without the religious ceremonial meaning

A

to apply oneself to

vsto dedicate

1 4.2

To work hard and focus on a task

demands full, sustained giving of time or self beyond focused effort

How Committed

to sacrifice

461 3.4

to devote

286 3.7

to dedicate

157 3.7

support

∞ 1.0

help

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology