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devotingverbpresent participle of devote to keep or intend for a special purposeI conscientiously devote several hours every weekend to playing with my dog allocating, consecrating, dedicating, earmarking, giving up (to), reserving, saving, setting by blessing, hallowing, sanctifyingcommitting, confiding, consigning, entrusting(also intrusting)applying, bestowing, employing, using setting apart, setting aside ignoring, neglectingmisapplying, misusing to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attentionplanning a diplomatic career, she's been intensely devoting herself to the study of foreign languages in college addressing, applying, bending, buckling, giving readdressing, reapplyingknuckling down, setting (to), settling (down)busying, committing, concerning, engaging, involvingexerting, exhausting, putting out, spending, straining, stressing, taxing, troubling, wearing outcarrying on, pitching in, plunging (in)grinding, humping, hustling, pegging (away), plodding, plowing, plugging (away), working getting cracking, getting one's act together, getting with it, turning one's hand(or turning a hand) dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, fiddling (around), fooling around, idling, messing around, monkeying (around), playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), trifling |