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{
"term": "devote",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "devote",
"heSheIt": "devotes"
},
"pastSimple": "devoted",
"pastParticiple": "devoted",
"ingForm": "devoting"
},
"definitions": [],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈvəʊt/",
"audio": "de/devote/devote__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈvəʊts/",
"audio": "de/devote/devotes__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈvəʊtɪd/",
"audio": "de/devote/devoted__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈvəʊtɪŋ/",
"audio": "de/devote/devoting__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈvəʊt/",
"audio": "de/devote/devote__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈvəʊts/",
"audio": "de/devote/devotes__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈvəʊtɪd/",
"audio": "de/devote/devoted__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈvəʊtɪŋ/",
"audio": "de/devote/devoting__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘dedicate formally, consecrate’): from Latin devot- ‘consecrated’, from the verb devovere, from de- ‘formally’ + vovere ‘to vow’."
}