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What is the verb for devote?

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devote
  1. To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter.
  2. To consign over; to doom.
  3. To execrate; to curse.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “He retired from the army to devote his energies to the movement he had founded several years earlier.”
      “Mr. Adams set to work and induced the Government to devote a sum of money to the construction of a bridge across the creek.”
devoted
devouted
  1. Obsolete form of devoted.
devove
  1. (obsolete) To devote.
devotes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devote
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He devotes an almost unendurable amount of space to Bogarde's antecedents, family and childhood.”
      “Warman devotes most of the remainder of the book to tracing the history of corn in major areas of the world, dealing first with Asiatic locales.”
      “We need to ask why Paul devotes so much space to the subject in writing to the Corinthians, while saying little about it to other churches.”
devoteth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of devote
devotest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of devote
devoting
  1. present participle of devote
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They were devoting much of their time to it and had received invaluable support from family and friends.”
      “I also came to express my thanks to the artists who are devoting their time and talents to such a vital cause.”
      “He is now roving about the Gatineau hills north of Ottawa, devoting his time to books on our forestry heritage.”
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