commit.
To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
Meaning & usage
To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
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To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!
To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
to commit murder
to commit a series of heinous crimes
To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
to commit oneself to a certain action
to commit to a relationship
To make a set of changes permanent.
To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
To make decisions that effectively convey elements of character.
To make this scene land, you really have to commit.
To confound.
To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English committen, itself borrowed from Latin committō (“to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc.”), from com- (“together”) + mittō (“to send”). See mission.
The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English committen, itself borrowed from Latin committō (“to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc.”), from com- (“together”) + mittō (“to send”). See mission.
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