Commit
[kə'mɪt]
Definition
(verb.) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; 'After the second episode, she had to be committed'; 'he was committed to prison'.
(verb.) engage in or perform; 'practice safe sex'; 'commit a random act of kindness'.
Typed by Duane--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
(v. t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
(v. t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
(v. t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
(v. t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
(v. t.) To confound.
(v. i.) To sin; esp., to be incontinent.
Editor: Ronda
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Intrust, consign, confide, give in trust.[2]. Deposit, put, place, lay.[3]. Perpetrate, enact, do, perform.[4]. Imprison, send to prison.[5]. Engage, pledge, implicate.[6]. Compromit, endanger, bring into danger, put at hazard, put in jeopardy.
Typist: Molly
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Perpetrate, execute, confide,[See DO], relegate, intrust, assign, allocate,consign
ANT:Miscommit, misconsign, misintrust, omit
Typed by Denis
Definition
v.t. to give in charge or trust: to consign: to do: to endanger: to involve: to pledge:—pr.p. commit′ting; pa.p. commit′ted.—ns. Commit′ment act of committing: an order for sending to prison: imprisonment; Commit′tal commitment: a pledge actual or implied; Commit′tee a portion generally consisting of not less than three members selected from a more numerous body to whom some special act to be performed or investigation to be made is committed; Commit′teeship.—Commit one's self to compromise one's self: to pledge one's self wittingly or unwittingly to a certain course; Commit to memory to learn by heart.
Typist: Merritt
Examples
- Thus they were willing to commit a sin against the spirit of religious law, in order that they might preserve the letter of it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I will go to Hortense if you commit extravagances. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And you needn't, says Mr. Bucket in a considerate and private voice, you needn't commit yourself to too low a figure, governor. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I shall not commit myself by claiming more than she may chuse to allow. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Commit suicide? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She promised to commit no extravagance, to be docile, and immediately to return. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Why, Mr. Holmes, the crime was only committed at three this morning. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- If he hasn't peached, and is committed, there's no fear till he comes out again,' said Mr. Sikes, 'and then he must be taken care on. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Permit me to give an idea of my devotion to my aunt's interests by recording that, on this occasion, I committed the prodigality of taking a cab. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Topsy had an uncommon verbal memory, and committed with a fluency that greatly encouraged her instructress. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Numerous offences had been committed in the neighbourhood; the perpetrators remained undiscovered, and their boldness increased. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If I saved one blow, one cruel, angry action that might otherwise have been committed, I did a woman's work. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I also felt that I had committed every crime in the Newgate Calendar. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Happily Rosamond did not think of committing any desperate act: she plaited her fair hair as beautifully as usual, and kept herself proudly calm. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Have I not carefully avoided exposing myself to the odium of committing unnecessary crime? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He'd set 'em at defiance if they talked of committing him, Sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- For mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it. Plato. The Republic.
- She is quite capable (according to my belief) of committing a daring fraud. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Marriage was not the committing of himself into a relationship with Gudrun. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In originally committing himself to this line of investigation he was well aware that he was going in a direction diametrically opposite to that followed by previous investigators. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But then, when the man commits burglary in order to break images which are not his own, that brings it away from the doctor and on to the policeman. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I think that Dorothea commits a wrong action in marrying Ladislaw. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There ain't a magistrate goin' as don't commit himself twice as he commits other people. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If he abuses my confidence, he commits a dishonourable action, Mr. Copperfield. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Every medical man commits that act of treachery, Mr. Blake, in the course of his practice. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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