ALL meanings of commit
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C c - verb commit If someone commits a crime or a sin, they do something illegal or bad. 3
- verb commit If someone commits suicide, they deliberately kill themselves. 3
- verb commit If you commit money or resources to something, you decide to use them for a particular purpose. 3
- verb commit If you commit yourself to something, you say that you will definitely do it. If you commit yourself to someone, you decide that you want to have a long-term relationship with them. 3
- verb commit If you do not want to commit yourself on something, you do not want to say what you really think about it or what you are going to do. 3
- verb commit If someone is committed to a hospital, prison, or other institution, they are officially sent there for a period of time. 3
- verb commit In the British legal system, if someone is committed for trial, they are sent by magistrates to stand trial in a crown court. 3
- verb commit to hand over, as for safekeeping; charge; entrust 3
- verb commit to confine officially or take into custody 3
- verb commit to pledge or align (oneself), as to a particular cause, action, or attitude 3
- verb commit to order (forces) into action 3
- verb commit to perform (a crime, error, etc); do; perpetrate 3
- verb commit to surrender, esp for destruction 3
- verb commit to refer (a bill, etc) to a committee of a legislature 3
- verb transitive commit to give in charge or trust; deliver for safekeeping; entrust; consign 3
- verb transitive commit to put officially in custody or confinement 3
- verb transitive commit to hand over or set apart to be disposed of or put to some purpose 3
- verb transitive commit to do or perpetrate (an offense or crime) 3
- verb transitive commit to bind as by a promise; pledge; engage 3
- verb transitive commit to make known the opinions or views of 3
- verb transitive commit to refer (a bill, etc.) to a committee to be considered 3
- intransitive verb commit to make a pledge or promise 3
- verb with object commit to give in trust or charge; consign. 1
- verb with object commit to consign for preservation: to commit ideas to writing; to commit a poem to memory. 1
- verb with object commit to pledge (oneself) to a position on an issue or question; express (one's intention, feeling, etc.): Asked if he was a candidate, he refused to commit himself. 1
- verb with object commit to bind or obligate, as by pledge or assurance; pledge: to commit oneself to a promise; to be committed to a course of action. 1
- verb with object commit to entrust, especially for safekeeping; commend: to commit one's soul to God. 1
- verb with object commit to do; perform; perpetrate: to commit murder; to commit an error. 1
- verb with object commit to consign to custody: to commit a delinquent to a reformatory. 1
- verb with object commit to place in a mental institution or hospital by or as if by legal authority: He was committed on the certificate of two psychiatrists. 1
- verb with object commit to deliver for treatment, disposal, etc.; relegate: to commit a manuscript to the flames. 1
- verb with object commit to send into a battle: The commander has committed all his troops to the front lines. 1
- verb with object commit Parliamentary Procedure. to refer (a bill or the like) to a committee for consideration. 1
- verb without object commit to pledge or engage oneself: an athlete who commits to the highest standards. 1
- transitive verb commit perpetrate 1
- intransitive verb commit promise 1
- transitive verb commit entrust 1
- transitive verb commit institutionalize 1
- transitive verb commit refer to a committee 1
- noun commit Carry out or perpetrate (a mistake, crime, or immoral act). 1
- noun commit (computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change. 0
- verb commit To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto. 0
- verb commit To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison. 0
- verb commit To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault. 0
- verb commit To join a contest; to match; followed by with. 0
- verb commit To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; for example to commit oneself to a certain action, to commit oneself to doing something. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.). 0
- verb commit (Obsolete (No longer in use)) (Latinism) To confound. 0
- verb commit (Obsolete (No longer in use)) VI To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate. 0