[ UK /kəmˈɪt/ ]
[ US /kəˈmɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. make an investment
    Put money into bonds
  2. cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
    After the second episode, she had to be committed
    he was committed to prison
  3. engage in or perform
    practice safe sex
    commit a random act of kindness
  4. confer a trust upon
    The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret
    I commit my soul to God
  5. perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
    perpetrate a crime
    pull a bank robbery
  6. give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
    consecrate your life to the church
    She committed herself to the work of God
    give one's talents to a good cause
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How To Use commit In A Sentence

  • The poems, plays, and essays of the committed cultural nationalist are characterized by a markedly hortatory or didactic manner.
  • According to police and prosecutors, the two got into a fight after she told him he should be committed to a mental hospital.
  • The committee will publish their report on the health service in a few weeks.
  • The term "strategic" came up again earlier this year, when Ontario's provincial government set up a committee to debate a proposed merger between London Stock Exchange Group PLC and TMX Group Inc., operator of Canada's flagship Toronto Stock Exchange. Canada Turns Wary Eye to Foreign Bids
  • In the event, only a few of these reports were completed and circularized to the committee.
  • You estimate, I will offer your estimated value to the auction committee.
  • All interested parties are asked to attend with a view to setting up a committee to organize and plan the same.
  • You would commit the most foul of murders out of loyalty to me.
  • Or is the idea of foreign policy beyondmilitary commitmentsso far off the radar that when the polls open, everything will hinge on the pitch-and-toss of national concerns? And Now, The Choice « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows
  • Committed by parents, teachers, priests or minders it undermines trust and dependency, disrupts relations with authority figures and can interfere with loving and learning.
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