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Another word for dedicate

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Verb

  1. To give over by or as if by vow to a higher purpose

    See also:

    give

  2. To devote (oneself or one's efforts)

    See also:

    work

    collect

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Another word for dedicate

Verb

  1. To consecrate

    See also:

    bless

  2. To set apart for special use

Synonym Study

  • Hallow , a stronger word, suggests an intrinsic holiness in the thing set apart to hallow the Sabbath
  • To consecrate is to set apart for some religious or holy use to consecrate ground for a church
  • To devote is to give up or apply oneself or something with the seriousness or earnestness evoked by a formal vow to devote one's life to a cause
  • To dedicate is to set apart or assign something, as in a formal rite, to some serious, often sacred, purpose to dedicate a temple, to dedicate oneself to painting
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Sentence Examples

  • A person could dedicate his life to understanding just one suggestion and never even get close.

  • His new wife longed for the necklace and peplus, and Alcmaeon, returning to Psophis, obtained possession of them, on the pretence that he desired to dedicate them at Delphi.

  • Well, Bordeaux was just the man to help her forget it - if he'd only dedicate his attentions to Darcie.

  • But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.

  • They did not dedicate each day in turn to its astrological planet; and it is therefore precarious to assume that the Sabbath was in its origin what it is in the astrological week, the day sacred to Saturn, and that its observance is to be derived from an ancient Hebrew worship of that planet.4 The week, however, is found in various parts of the world in a form that has nothing to do with astrology or the seven planets, and with such a distribution as to make it pretty certain that it had no artificial origin, but suggested itself independently, and for natural reasons, to different races.

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