See devote in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1678, Obadiah Grew, Meditations Upon Our Saviour's Parable of The Prodigal Son:",
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"code": "ar",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "توفر على"
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"code": "ar",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "صرف همته إلى"
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "նվիրել"
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "zasvětit"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "vie"
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"code": "da",
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "omistaa"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "consacrer"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "vouer"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "consagrar"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "widmen"
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"code": "el",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
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"code": "he",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "הקדיש"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "áldoz"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "szentel"
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"code": "ga",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "tabhair"
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"alt": "こる",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "koru",
"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "凝る"
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"code": "ltg",
"lang": "Latgalian",
"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "paškiert"
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "addīcō"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
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"code": "lv",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "whakaū"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
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"code": "mi",
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"word": "kiriwhakauka"
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
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"code": "pl",
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"code": "pl",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "devotar"
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"code": "ru",
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"word": "посвяща́ть"
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"code": "gd",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "dedicar"
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"code": "es",
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "to commit for a certain matter",
"word": "adamak"
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"ref": "1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
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