verb [VN]
1 ~ yourself / sth to sth / to doing sth to give a lot of your time and effort to a particular activity or purpose because you think it is important:
She dedicates herself to her work. * 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 ~ sth (to sb/sth) to hold an official ceremony to say that a church, or other building, or an object has a special purpose or is special to the memory of a particular person:
The chapel was dedicated in 1880. * A memorial stone was dedicated to those who lost their lives in the war.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for dedicate is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does dedicate appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — dedicate appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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