commit

v.

1. To perform

   perpetrate, do, act, carry out; see perform 1.

2. To give in charge

   entrust, confide, consign, delegate, relegate, leave to, give to do, turn over, assign, head over, put in the hands of, allot, charge, invest, allocate, apportion, rely upon, depend upon, confer a trust, bind over, make responsible for, pledge, bind, oblige, obligate, constrain, make another's duty, empower, employ, dispatch, send, vest in, authorize, deputize, engage, commission, depute, convey, put in custody, institutionalize, confine, imprison, lock up*, put away*; see also assign 1, imprison.

commit, the basic term here, implies the delivery of a person or thing into the charge or keeping of another; entrust and confide imply committal based on trust and confidence, with, confide sometimes also suggesting the private nature of what is entrusted; consign suggests formal action in transferring something to another's possession or control; relegate implies assigning to a specific class, sphere, place, etc., esp. one of inferiority, and usually suggests the literal or figurative removal of something undesirable

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