dedicate

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

dedi·cate [dedicate dedicates dedicated dedicating] BrE [ˈdedɪkeɪt] NAmE [ˈdedɪkeɪt] verb
1. to give a lot of your time and effort to a particular activity or purpose because you think it is important
Syn: ↑devote
•~ yourself/sth to sth She dedicates herself to her work.
•~ yourself/sth to doing sth He dedicated his life to helping the poor.
2. ~ sth to sb to say at the beginning of a book, a piece of music or a performance that you are doing it for sb, as a way of thanking them or showing respect
•This book is dedicated to my parents.
3. 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
•~ sth The chapel was dedicated in 1880.
•~ sth to sb/sth A memorial stone was dedicated to those who were killed in the war.
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Word Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘devote to sacred use by solemn rites’): from Latin dedicat- ‘devoted, consecrated’, from the verb dedicare.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  give, consecrate, commit, devote