Antonyms for dedicate

Grammar : Verb

Spell : verb ded-i-keyt; adjective ded-i-kit

Phonetic Transcription : verb ˈdɛd ɪˌkeɪt; adjective ˈdɛd ɪ kɪt

Definition of dedicate

Origin : early 15c. (of churches), from Latin dedicatus, past participle of dedicare "consecrate, proclaim, affirm, set apart," from de- "away" (see de-) + dicare "proclaim," from stem of dicere "to speak, to say" (see diction). Dedicated "devoted to one's aims or vocation" is first attested 1944.

verb donate, set aside for special use
verb sanctify

Example sentences :

To dedicate the chapel to her patron saint was only natural.
Extract from : « Byzantine Churches in Constantinople » by Alexander Van Millingen

If a man should dedicate himself to the payment of notes, would not this be injustice?
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Such is the discourse, half playful, half serious, which I dedicate to the god.
Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato

You must dedicate this morning to me: it's the last, you know.
Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 » by Various

He has told me of your days in South America together and how he told you to dedicate it.
Extract from : « David Dunne » by Belle Kanaris Maniates

I dedicate it to the film, to the moving picture, to beauty!
Extract from : « The Crimson Tide » by Robert W. Chambers

Every moment I can spare from the Company I dedicate to you.
Extract from : « Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782 » by Lucinda Lee Orr

And he had sworn to dedicate the rest of his life to being worthy of her condescension.
Extract from : « All Roads Lead to Calvary » by Jerome K. Jerome

He completed, but did not dedicate, the palace, and finished the porticoes round it.
Extract from : « Theodoric the Goth » by Thomas Hodgkin

If the publisher would let me, I'd dedicate this book to you, to "Those States."
Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence

Synonyms for dedicate

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