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/ |