devote

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
devote/dɪˈvəʊt/

▶verb

• 1 (devote something to) give time or resources to (a person or activity).

• 2 archaic invoke or pronounce a curse upon.

– origin C16 (in the sense ‘dedicate formally, consecrate’): from L. devot-, devovere, from de- ‘formally’ + vovere ‘to vow’.