DEDICATES

Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause

Example: "She committed herself to the work of god"

• commit  12
• consecrate  14
• devote  10
• give  8

• apply  12
• employ  13
• use  3
• utilise  7
• utilize  16

• consecrate  14
• vow  9
• rededicate  14
• apply  12

Open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building

Example: "The beauty queen spends her time dedicating parks and nursing homes"

Inscribe or address by way of compliment

Example: "She dedicated her book to her parents"

• give  8
• render  7

• inscribe  12

Set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church