Commit

Definition: Commit

Commit

Verb

1. Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery".

2. 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".

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

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

5. Make an investment; "Put money into bonds".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "commit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Commit

Action

Verb: do, perform, execute; achieve; (complete); transact, enact; commit, perpetrate, inflict; exercise, prosecute, carry on, work, practice, play.

Amusement

Cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game; loo, cribbage, besique, euchre, drole, ecarte, picquet, allfours, quadrille, omber, reverse, Pope Joan, commit; boston, boaston; blackjack, twenty-one, vingtun; quinze, thirty-one, put, speculation, connections, brag, cassino, lottery, commerce, snip-snap-snoren, lift smoke, blind hookey, Polish bank, Earl of Coventry, Napoleon, patience, pairs; banker; blind poker, draw poker, straight poker, stud poker; bluff, bridge, bridge whist; lotto, monte, three-card monte, nap, penny-ante, poker, reversis, squeezers, old maid, fright, beggar-my-neighbor; baccarat.

Commission

Verb: commission, delegate, depute; consign, assign; charge; intrust, entrust; commit, commit to the hands of; authorize; (permit).

Lawsuit

Serve with a writ, cite, apprehend, arraign, sue, prosecute, bring an action against, indict, impeach, attach, distrain, commit; arrest; summon, summons; give in charge; (restrain).

Restraint

Arrest; take up, take charge of, take into custody; take prisoner, take captive, make prisoner, make captive; captivate; lead captive, lead into captivity; send to prison, commit to prison; commit; give in charge, give in custody; subjugate.

Crosswords: Commit

French (commited).

And so, Theodore Donald Karabozoz, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which you loved so well. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

I just commit very early. (Peter's Friends; writing credit: Martin Bergmann and Rita Rudner.)

Maybe rushing into things you can't quite commit to. (Twister; writing credit: Michael Crichton; Anne-Marie Martin)

On the charge of conspiracy to commit murder, the members find the accused not guilty. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

I'm not gonna commit suicide, if that's what you're thinking. (Dead Man on Campus; writing credit: Anthony Abrams; Adam Larson Broder)

You can feel the punishment but you can't commit the sin (NO ONE IS TO BLAME; performing artist: Howard Jones)

How to Commit Marriage (1969)

The Real Reason (Men Commit Crimes) (1998)

Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery (1978)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 10 Foolish Dating Mistakes That Men & Women Commit : And How to Avoid Them (reference)

• America�s Space Shuttle : NASA Document Superset � Flight Checklists, Handbooks, Launch Commit Criteria, Internal Operational Books (Two CD-ROM Set) (reference)

• Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing (reference)

• How to Commit Monogamy: A Lighthearted Look at Long-Term Love (reference)

• No Angels: Women Who Commit Violence (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• How to Commit a Marriage (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• I Commit to Love (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

[Caricature of a man about to commit suicide by pounding a nail into his head] / A. Paul Weber. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Trying to commit political suicide!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wanted by the FBI. Leroy Eldridge Cleaver. Interstate flight - assault with intent to commit murder. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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As long as you commit that sin, my poor child, you will never be worth one farthing to God.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

In recent years, there has been an increase in reports of club drugs used to commit sexual assaults. (references)

Some researchers have suggested that steroid abusers may commit aggressive acts and property crimes not because of steroids' direct effects on the brain but because the abusers have been affected by extensive media attention to the link between steroids and aggression. (references)

Business

Investment contracts often call for foreign investors to commit themselves gradually to increase the percentage of local content. (references)

After this, many of Noriega's supporters kept arms that were provided by Noriega and used them to commit robberies, especially against the commercial and banking sectors. (references)

This is seen as a significant step towards unblocking development at the PMP. The Council agreed to commit R100 million ($14 million) plus a newly deposited R25 million ($3.5 million) for a world-class oceanarium designed to be the anchor attraction in an area that will include hotels, tourist attractions, retail, commercial and residential components. (references)

Children

Mexico

Corrupt police officials sometimes exploit these children by pressuring them to commit petty crimes and extorting money from them. (references)

Yemen

Patients with mental illness, particularly those who commit crimes, are imprisoned and even shackled when there is no one to care for them. (references)

Costa Rica

Traditional attitudes and the inclination to treat such crimes as misdemeanors sometimes hamper legal proceedings against those who commit crimes against children. (references)

Civil Liberties

Vietnam

Police claimed several of the followers were preparing to commit self-immolation. (references)

Hungary

Any 10 or more persons may form an association, provided that it does not commit criminal offenses or disturb the rights of others. (references)

Guyana

On May 16, the police arrested Mark Benschop, host of television program "Straight Up," and charged him with sedition and incitement to commit murder. (references)

Economic History

Kazakhstan

U.S. companies should be prepared to commit resources to customer-service training for local staff. (references)

Zambia

Police sometimes commit extortion at roadblocks or require document processing "fees" or gas money in order to commence investigations. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Government agencies usually require equipment suppliers to commit to providing maintenance and spare parts for an average period of three years. (references)

Human Rights

Sri Lanka

The LTTE continued to commit extrajudicial killings. (references)

Pakistan

In general police continued to commit such killings with impunity. (references)

Rwanda

The RPA continued to commit extrajudicial killings during the year. (references)

Minorities

Japan

There is a widespread perception that foreigners commit many crimes. (references)

Pakistan

Members of religious minorities are subject to violence and harassment, and police at times refuse to prevent such actions or to charge persons who commit them. (references)

Switzerland

Neo-Nazi, skinhead, and other extremist organizations attracted greater police and government attention during the year because of such groups' increasing organization at international levels, the violence such groups commit, and the youth of the group members. (references)

Political Economy

Syria

Their members commit serious human rights abuses. (references)

Argentina

Police continued to commit extrajudicial killings. (references)

Sudan

Rebel groups continued to commit numerous, serious abuses. (references)

Trade

India

Certain lenders, experienced in the program, have been given delegated authority to commit Ex-Im Bank's guarantee. (references)

Russia

In 1994, to meet the demands of larger projects in Russia (and worldwide), OPIC doubled the amount of insurance and quadrupled the amount of finance support - to $200 million in each case - it can commit to an individual project (a total of $400 million). (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

It is uncommon for the carjackers to engage in gratuitous violence or to commit sexual assault. (references)

Women

Mongolia

Approximately 98.5 percent of those who commit violent crimes in the home are male. (references)

Brazil

Men who commit crimes against women, including sexual assault and murder, are unlikely to be brought to trial. (references)

New Zealand

The law prohibits sex tourism, and citizens who commit child sex offenses overseas can be prosecuted in New Zealand courts. (references)

Worker Rights

Belize

Enforcement is not universal, and the ministries commit their limited inspection and investigative resources principally to urban and more accessible rural areas where labor, health, and safety complaints have been registered. (references)

Palau

Following complaints to police by several of the women, four People's Republic of China nationals were arrested, tried, convicted of conspiracy to commit prostitution (1-year sentence suspended), fined $1,000, and deported in February. (references)

Indonesia

The law allows the Government to petition the courts to dissolve a union if its basis conflicts with Pancasila or the 1945 constitution, or if a union's leaders or members, in the name of the union, commit crimes against the security of the State and are sentenced to at least 5 years in prison. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "commit": Attempt to commit a crime ♦ commit a crime ♦ commit a criminal offense ♦ commit a felony intentionally ♦ commit a foul ♦ commit a misdemeanour intentionally ♦ commit a mistake ♦ commit a murder ♦ commit a sin ♦ commit adultery ♦ commit an absurdity ♦ commit an error ♦ commit an offence ♦ commit an offense ♦ commit arson ♦ commit grave mistake ♦ commit homicide ♦ commit in highway robbery ♦ commit infraction ♦ commit memory ♦ commit nuisance ♦ commit offend ♦ commit oneself ♦ commit oneself to smth. ♦ commit perjury ♦ commit sacrilege ♦ commit sin ♦ commit smb. for trial ♦ commit smb. to prison ♦ commit smth. to memory ♦ commit suicide ♦ commit suicide by gas ♦ commit suicude ♦ commit to ♦ commit to action ♦ commit to battle ♦ commit to memory ♦ commit to paper ♦ commit to prison ♦ commit to the custody of ♦ commit to the flames ♦ commit to the ground ♦ commit to the hands of ♦ commit to writing ♦ incitement to commit or assistance with suicide ♦ To commit ♦ To commit a bill ♦ To commit to memory ♦ try to commit suicide. Additional references.

Ending with "commit": over-commit.

Albanian

parashtroj (bring, enunciate, expound, pose, posit, prefer, propound, put forward, submit), mbyll (bung, calk, caulk, close, close up, confine, crib, dry up, encase, enclose, encompass, end, entomb, fasten, furl, glue up, hush up, impound, inclose, key, lap, obturate, occlude, pen, screw on, seal, shut, shut down, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, stuff, suffuse, turn off, wind up, wrap up), marr përsipër (take on, undertake), kryej (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, carry through, despatch, discharge, dispatch, do, effect, effectuate, execute, face it out, fill, fulfil, fulfill, perfect, perform, process, prosecute, put through, wage), besoj (accredit, believe, calculate, confide, consign, credit, entrust, guess, hold, intrust, rely, Trow, trust, understand, ween), bëj (achieve, act, beget, carry into effect, carry on, carry out, carry through, catch, cause, create, do, effect, effectuate, fabricate, grow, have, make, make up, navigate, pay, perform, perpetrate, proceed, render, study, transact, wage, wreak), angazhohem (be involved in, bind, contract in, covenant, engage in). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرض (assess, direct, enforcement, enjoin, force, impel, impose, imposition, oblige, order, predicate, prescription, put, require), ‏نفذ (act, activate, be executed, carry into effect, carry out, come true, computerize, do, effect, effectuate, enforce, execute, fill, fulfil, fulfill, honor, honour, implement, invoke, penetrate, percolate, perform, permeate, petering, pierce, practise, proceed, pursue, put into effect, realize, transfix, traverse), ‏ورط (embarrass, embroil, fix, implicate, involve, tangle, wind), ‏ودع (check, commend, consign, entrust, keep, keeping, let, let go, lodge, part from, pay, see off, send off, store), ‏حلف بالزور (perjure), ‏حول (ability, about, alien, around, be cross eyed, bleach, capricious, concerning, deed, deliver, deter, divert, encode, hand down, hand over, make, metamorphose, power, process, redress, refer, relocate, round, stop, switch, transfer, transmute, transpose, turn, whimsical, withdraw, work, year), ‏سلم (accept, admit, agree, allow, consign, deliver, give in, grant, hand over, hierarchy, ladder, postulate, presume, recognize, render, resign, rung, salaam, salute, scale, secure, stair, staircase, stairway, submit, transmit, turn in, turn over), ‏إقترف, ‏إرتكب (do, perpetrate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

въвличам (draw in, entangle, implicate, involve, mix up, plunge), заангажирвам (busy), предавам на съхранение, поверявам (bequeath, commend, confide, consign, disembosom, entrust, intrust, recommend, unbosom, whisper), давам (accommodate, accord, adduce, administer, afford, allow, award, bring forth, confer, delegate, dig up, endow, gave, give, give in, given, grant, hand out, hold, hold out, kick in, pass, pay, present, produce, put up, render, send, set, show). (various references)

Chinese 

做 (Committed, Committing, do, Does, Doing, Done, made, make, making). (various references)

Czech

svìřit (consign, entrust, leave, refer, vest), spáchat (perpetrate), předložit (bring forward, bring in, dish up, introduce, pose, prefer, produce, propound, put, put forward, put in, render, send in, set, submit, tender). (various references)

Dutch

zelfmoord plegen (commit suicide, kill oneself), Wet van 31-3-1971, houdende strafbaarstelling v.h. gewelddadig in zijn macht brengen of houden van luchtvaartuigen en van enkele andere gedragingen die de veiligheid en de ongestoorde voortgang v.h. luchtverkeer in gevaar kunnen brengen (Act of 31 March 1971 making it a punishable offence to seize by force or exercise control of aircraft, or to commit any other act which might jeopardize the safety and the smooth operation of air services), overtreden (commit an infringement upon, infringe, infringe upon), overspel plegen (commit adultery), inbreuk maken op (commit an infringement upon, infringe, infringe upon), echtbreken (commit adultery), de hand aan zichzelf slaan (commit suicide, kill oneself), adulteren (commit adultery), aanvallen (assault, attack, commit aggression). (various references)

Esperanto

mortigi sin (commit suicide, kill oneself), agresi (commit aggression), adulti (commit adultery). (various references)

Farsi 

متعهدبانجام امری نمودن , مرتکب شدن , سپردن (Award, Confide, Consign, Depute, Entrust, Reposit, Surrender), سرسپردن . (various references)

Finnish

tehdä (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, cause, do, draw up, execute, get, make, perform), syyllistyä johonkin (make oneself guilty of), harjoittaa (carry on, do, drill, exercise, practise, pursue, rehearse, train). (various references)

French

commettre (commenttre), réaliser (come true), obliger (compel, constrain), investir, interner, imposer (compel), faire impliquer, engager (connect, couple). (various references)

German

verüben (perpetrate, perpetration), anvertrauen (confide, entrust, intrust, to confide, to entrust, to intrust). (various references)

Greek 

κάνω (do, make, render), διαπράττω (commit arson, perpetrate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחיב (bind, charge an account, compel, debit, enjoin, necessitate, obligate, oblige), לבצע (achieve, act, carry out, do, drive, execute, perform, render). (various references)

Hungarian

rábíz (allot, commend, confide, consign, leave, to allot, to commend, to consign, to entrust, to remit, to vest), elkövet (perpetrate, to commit, to perpetrate). (various references)

Indonesian

mengamanatkan (dedicate, entrust, instruct), memburit (sodomy), melakukan (bring about, carry out, make, perform, perpetrate, undertake), berseburitan (sodomy). (various references)

Italian

consegnare (consign, deliver, entrust, hand, hand over, intrust, leave, present, resign, surrender), compromettersi (compromise), commettere (achieve, act, carry out, do, make, perform), raccomandare (advise, commend, counsel, entrust, intrust, recommend, register, to recommend, urge), mandare (consign, despatch, dispatch, drive, drop, emit, forward, get, give off, let out, send, send off, send out, sent, to send, transmit, utter), impegnare (absorb, be involved, bind, commit oneself, engage, engage oneself, go bail, invest, keep busy, oblige, pawn, pledge, reserve, retain, take up), affidare (confide, consign, entrust, grant, intrust, leave, rely on, remit, to rely). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"託 (consignto a firm), entrust). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いたく (consignto a firm), dependence, entrust, exceedingly), コミット . (various references)

Korean 

투입하십시�". (various references)

Manx

kyndaghey (charge, charge assert, committal, criminate, crimination, incriminate, incrimination, inculpate, inculpation), jannoo (accomplish, accomplishment, act, build, cast, coalesce, committal, compose, conferment, conformation, construct, construction, create, deal, deed, do, effect, execute, fabricate, fashion, fend, fill, follow out, formation, goings on, keep, make, manufacture, perform, performance, performing, perpetrate, perpetration, persuance, practise, produce, production, render; doing, structure, style, transact, transaction, transactions), cur rish (apply, implement, practise, stand to, supplement), cur fo currym (commend, consign). (various references)

Pig Latin

ommitcay

Portuguese

consignar (address, bill, consign, despatch, devote, dispatch, send), confiar (charge, confide, consign, depend, entrust, have confidence in, hope, intrust, lippen, rely, trust), cometer (perpetrate), praticar (exert, practice, practise, profess, to practice, use), mandar (bid, boss, command, consign, depute, direct, enjoin, have, impose, order, require, send, superintend, tell, to send, to send out, transmit), enviar (consign, despatch, dispatch, forward, frank, mail, refer, send, send off, to send, transmit), entregar (charge, consign, deliver, dispense, furnish, give, give in, give up, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, lay down, part with, relinquish, render, serve, supply, turn in, turn over, yield), empenhar (engage, flog, gage, hock, impawn, mortgage, pawn, pledge, plight), arriscar (chance, dare, endanger, hazard, imperil, jeopard, jeopardize, pawn, peril, risk, stick one's neck out, venture). (various references)

Romanian

consemna (consign to, deposit, gate, record, register), comite (perpetrate, profane, recommit), se obliga (bind oneself, engage, oblige oneself, promise), se lega la cap, se compromite (compromise oneself), sãvârşi (accomplish, achieve, consummate, do, effect, execute, finish, perform, perpetrate, terminate), preda un mesaj (render a message), opera (act, operate), face (achieve, act, anoint, appoint, be, be up to smth., bear, build, carry out, compose, conclude, cook, cost, create, cut, dispense, do, does, draw, drive, effect, form, give, give forth, grow, happen, have, hold, induce, it does, keep, lead, leave, let, make, move, perform, perpetrate, persuade, prepare, produce, prompt, render, say, scoop in, strike, work, write, yield), fãptui (do), da în grijã (charge, commit to the custody of, consign to), bãga în închisoare, înregistra (bill, book, chalk up, enlist, enregister, enter, list, record, register, score, write), încredinţa (assure, confide, consign to, convince, entrust, give over, leave to, recommend, tell, trust). (various references)

Russian 

совершать (accomplish, bring to pass, commited, committed, effect, effectuate, perpetrate, perpetrating). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

predati (commend, consign, deliver, give in, give in charge, give over, hand, hand down, hand over, pass on, reach, surrender), posvetiti (canonize, consecrate, dedicate, hallow, inscribe, sanctify), izvršiti (accomplish, carry out, carry through, execute, implement, perform, perpetrate). (various references)

Spanish

cometer (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, do, foul, go at, keep, make, observe, perform). (various references)

Swedish

föröva (perpetrate), begå (celebrate, perpetrate). (various references)

Thai

ส่งกลับ (re commit to, remand). (various references)

Turkish

vâât etmek (covenant, give one's word, hold out, pledge, promise), teslim etmek (cede, confide, consign, deliver, deliver up, give in, give up, hand in, hand over, own, resign, submit, surrender, turn in, turn over, yield up), suç işlemek (commit an offence, commit an offense, fall from grace, offend, sin, trespass), söz vermek (assure, covenant, engage, give an undertaking, give one's word, guarantee, impawn, make a promise, pledge, pledge one's word, plight, promise, take the pledge, undertake), komisyona sunmak, işlemek (brake, brand, cultivate, discourse, engrave, farm, ferry, forge, function, go, grave, hammer, handle, indwell, instil, instill, operate, penetrate, perform, perpetrate, print, process, run, sink, sink into, stamp, strike, tame, till, travel, treat, work), emanet etmek (bail, commend, confide, consign, deposit, entrust, resign, trust, trust smb. with smth.), adamak (consecrate, dedicate, devote, give up, offer, vow, Wed, wed with), önermek (proffer, propose, propound, recommend, slate, submit, suggest, vote). (various references)

Ukrainian

вчиняти, піддавати (subject, submit), доручати (accredit, assign, charge, confide, consign, entrust, intrust, trust). (various references)

Welsh

cyflawni (accomplish, achieve, fulfill, perform), traddodi (deliver). (various references)

adstrictos, adstrictus, adstringens, adstrinxissent, comitto, commenda, commendabam, commendabit, commendabo, commendamus, commendant, commendantes, commendarat, commendare, commendaret, commendari, commendasset, commendat, commendata, commendatum, commendatus, commendaverit, commendaverunt, commendavit, commendo, committere, credam, credamus, credant, credas, credat, credatis, crede, credebam, credebant, credebat, credemus, credendo, credens, credent, credentem, credentes, credenti, credentibus, credentium, credere, crederent, crederentur, crederet, crederetis, crederetur, crederis, credes, credet, credetis, credi, crediderant, crediderint, credideris, crediderit, credideritis, crediderunt, credidi, credidimus, credidissent, credidisti, credidistis, credidit, credimus, credis, credit, credita, creditae, creditam, credite, creditis, creditor, creditum, creditur, credituri, creditus, credo, credunt, delego, discredatis, trado. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "commit": commitment, commitments, commits, committable, committal, committals, committed, committee, committeeman, committeemen, committees, committeewoman, committeewomen, committing. (additional references)

Words ending with "commit": overcommit, recommit. (additional references)

Words containing "commit": noncommitment, noncommitments, noncommittal, noncommittally, noncommitted, overcommitment, overcommitments, overcommits, overcommitted, overcommitting, precommitment, recommitment, recommitments, recommits, recommittal, recommittals, recommitted, recommitting, subcommittee, subcommittees, uncommitted. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Commit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cammie, Comair, comi, comio, comish, comit, comite, comitt, commet, commi, commin, commis, commish, commite, committ, commity, commixt, commiy, commuty, commy, comnet, comnt, comot, Comsit, comtist, conit, Conmy, coomi, Kimmitt, ommit, somit, sommit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: momi, omit, otic.

-3 letters: cot, mim, moc, mom, mot, tic, tom.

-4 letters: it, mi, mm, mo, om, ti, to.

+1 letter: commits, commixt.

+2 letters: recommit.

+3 letters: ammonitic, comminute, committal, committed, committee, commodity, commotion, communist, community, commuting, metonymic, microtome, mitomycin, monatomic, recommits.

+4 letters: commenting, comminuted, comminutes, commitment, committals, committees, committing, commixture, commotions, communists, compliment, manometric, matronymic, metronomic, micrometer, microtomes, miscompute, mitomycins, nonmimetic, osmometric, overcommit, pantomimic.

+5 letters: achromatism, commination, comminatory, comminuting, comminution, commiserate, commitments, committable, commixtures, commodities, commonality, communalist, communality, communicant, communicate, communistic, communities, commutating, commutation, commutative, compliments, crematorium, homogametic, incommodity, matronymics, metamorphic, metasomatic, metonymical, microgamete, micrometers, micromethod, miscomputed, miscomputes, monasticism, multicolumn, mythomaniac, overcommits, recommittal, recommitted, romanticism, symptomatic, uncommitted.