dedicate
v.v. to give your time, energy, or attention to a specific task or person. You use this when you focus on one goal instead of many.
v. to devote time, effort, or resources to a particular purpose or person. Transitive; typically followed by 'to' when indicating the recipient or goal.
She dedicates two hours to reading every night.
The company dedicates a portion of its profits to environmental conservation projects.
He dedicated his life's work to preserving the oral histories of indigenous communities before they vanished.
From Middle English dedicaten (“to dedicate”), from dedicat(e) (“dedicated”, also used as the past participle of dedicaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), from Latin dēdicātus, the perfect passive participle of dēdicō (“to dedicate, proclaim”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
from Middle English dedicat(e) (“dedicated”, also used as the past participle of dedicaten), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. The nouns is derived through substantivization from Latin dēdicātus, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
The verb is transitive. It often takes the structure 'dedicate [something] to [someone/something]'.