commit

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 9.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.

   Commit these numbers to memory.

2. verb To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
3. verb To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.

   Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!

4. verb To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.

   to commit murder

5. verb To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step.

   to commit oneself to a certain action

6. verb To make a set of changes permanent.
7. verb To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
8. verb To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.

Similar words

entrust trust confide give devote perpetrate put charge institutionalize invest

Often followed by

the suicide a to themselves himself an any adultery

Word family

commitment commitments commits committable committed committing