Commit definition
To put in trust or charge; entrust.
Commit oneself to the care of a doctor; commit responsibilities to an assistant.
verb
To refer (a legislative bill, for example) to a committee.
verb
To consign for future use or for preservation.
We must commit the necessary funds for the project.
verb
To place officially in confinement or custody, as in a mental health facility.
verb
To put into a place to be disposed of or kept safe.
Committed the manuscript to the flames.
verb
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To give in charge or trust; deliver for safekeeping; entrust; consign.
We commit his fame to posterity.
verb
To put officially in custody or confinement.
Committed to prison.
verb
To hand over or set apart to be disposed of or put to some purpose.
To commit something to the trash heap.
verb
To refer (a bill, etc.) to a committee to be considered.
verb
(informal) To make a pledge or promise.
verb
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To bind as by a promise; pledge; engage.
Committed to the struggle.
verb
To commit is to promise to do something, to describe the act of engaging in a crime or to hand over someone or something.
An example of commit is when you promise your friend you will come to her wedding.
An example of commit is when you murder someone.
An example of commit is when you check a family member into a mental health facility.
verb
To make known the views of (oneself) on an issue.
I never commit myself on such issues.
verb
To bind, obligate, or devote, as by a pledge.
They were committed to follow orders. She committed herself to her art.
verb
To pledge, obligate, or devote one's own self.
Felt that he was too young to commit fully to marriage.
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To do or perpetrate (an offense or crime)
verb
To make known the opinions or views of.
To commit oneself on an issue.
verb
To place officially in confinement or custody, as in a mental health facility.
verb
To do; perpetrate.
verb
To order a person’s placement in, or to send a person to, a hospital, mental health facility, prison, or similar institution, especially pursuant to court order.
verb
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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.)
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Shakespeare.
Commit not with man's sworn spouse.
verb
(computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.
noun
To do, perform, or perpetrate.
Commit a murder.
verb
commit to memory
- to learn by heart; memorize
idiom
commit to paper
- to write down; record
idiom
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
commit to paper
Origin of commit
- Middle English committen from Latin committere com- com- mittere to send
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Wiktionary