Donate vs Devote - What's the difference?
donate | devote |
To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another.
To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter.
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* Gray
To consign over; to doom.
To execrate; to curse.
As verbs the difference between donate and devote
is that donate is to make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another while devote is to give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter.As an adjective devote is
devoted; addicted; devout.donate
English
Verb
(donat)- She donates 100 dollars to Red Crescent every year.
- He donated an etching from his own collection to the new art gallery.
Anagrams
* ----devote
English
Verb
(devot)- They devoted their lives to following Jesus Christ.
- I devoted this afternoon to repainting my study, and nothing will get in my way.
- They devoted themselves unto all wickedness.
- a leafless and simple branch devoted to the purpose of climbing
- to devote one to destruction
- The city was devoted to the flames.