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[Com*mit·]

To commit is to fully dedicate yourself to something. To commit yourself to being the coolest kid on the beach means spending hours at the mall trying on trunks and flip flops.

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To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

Verb
give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause; "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one''s talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"

Verb
make an investment; "Put money into bonds"

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cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"

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confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the general''s secret"; "I commit my soul to God"

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perform an act, usually with a negative connotation; "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"

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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.

Commit

Com*mit" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Commited; p. pr. & vb. n. Commiting.] [L. committere, commissum, to connect, commit; com- + mittere to send. See Mission.] 1. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
Commit thy way unto the Lord.
Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave.
2. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
These two were commited.
3. To do; to perperate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
4. To join a contest; to match; -- followed by with. [R.] Dr. H. More. 5. 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.
You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without commiting the honor of your sovereign.
Any sudden assent to the proposal . . . might possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States.
6. To confound. [An obsolete Latinism.]
Committing short and long [quantities].
To commit a bill (Legislation), to refer or intrust it to a committee or others, to be considered and reported. -- To commit to memory, ∨ To commit, to learn by heart; to memorize. Syn. -- To Commit, Intrust, Consign. These words have in common the idea of transferring from one's self to the care and custody of another. Commit is the widest term, and may express only the general idea of delivering into the charge of another; as, to commit a lawsuit to the care of an attorney; or it may have the special sense of intrusting with or without limitations, as to a superior power, or to a careful servant, or of consigning, as to writing or paper, to the flames, or to prison. To intrust denotes the act of committing to the exercise of confidence or trust; as, to intrust a friend with the care of a child, or with a secret. To consign is a more formal act, and regards the thing transferred as placed chiefly or wholly out of one's immediate control; as, to consign a pupil to the charge of his instructor; to consign goods to an agent for sale; to consign a work to the press.

Commit

Com"mit, v. i. To sin; esp., to be incontinent. [Obs.]
Commit not with man's sworn spouse.

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

To sin; esp., to be incontinent.

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Usage Examples

I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

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Other Usage Examples

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.