{
    "term": "devote",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "devote",
            "heSheIt": "devotes"
        },
        "pastSimple": "devoted",
        "pastParticiple": "devoted",
        "ingForm": "devoting"
    },
    "definitions": [],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvəʊt/",
                "audio": "de/devote/devote__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvəʊts/",
                "audio": "de/devote/devotes__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvəʊtɪd/",
                "audio": "de/devote/devoted__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvəʊtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "de/devote/devoting__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvəʊt/",
                "audio": "de/devote/devote__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvəʊts/",
                "audio": "de/devote/devotes__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvəʊtɪd/",
                "audio": "de/devote/devoted__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvəʊtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "de/devote/devoting__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘dedicate formally, consecrate’): from Latin devot- ‘consecrated’, from the verb devovere, from de- ‘formally’ + vovere ‘to vow’."
}