Dedicate

Definition

dedicate /'dedÇkeÇt/ v ၁။ ~ oneself/sth to sth/doing sth ႏွစ္ျမႇဳပ္ထားသည္။ dedicate oneself to one's work ❍ She dedicated her life to helping the poor. ၂။ ~ sth to sb (စာအုပ္စသည္တြင္ စာေရးသူက) တစ္စံုတစ္ဦးအား ရည္စူးေၾကာင္း ေဖာ္ျပသည္။ She dedicated her first book to her teacher (eg by putting his name at the front). ❍ That song was dedicated to Lynette from her husband Peter. ၃။ ~ sth (to sb/sth) တစ္စံုတစ္ဦးအား ရည္စူးသတ္မွတ္ လႉဒါန္းသည္။ The chapel was dedicated in 1880. ❍ A memorial stone was dedicated to those who lost their lives. Compare CONSECRATE ❏ dedicated adj ~ (to sth) (မိမိကိုယ္ကို) အလုပ္၊ ရည္မွန္းခ်က္ စသည္တြင္ ႏွစ္ျမႇဳပ္ထားေသာ၊ ျမႇဳပ္ႏွံထားေသာ။ a dedicated worker/priest/teacher ❍ She's totally dedicated to her work.

Examples

1. [dedicate something to something] : Andy wants to dedicate more time to his hobbies.
2. [dedicate something to doing something] : This woman has dedicated her whole life to helping others.
3. [dedicate yourself to something] : He dedicated himself to academic work.
4. Lynne has dedicated the novel to her friend Norma.
5. A church dedicated to Saint Francis
6. The newspaper dedicated three whole pages to pictures of the princess.