Commit

Quick meaning: Commit is a verb meaning (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.

Meaning

(transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
2. (transitive) To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
3. (transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
4. (transitive, computing, databases) To make a set of changes permanent.
5. (transitive, programming) To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
7. (ambitransitive) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)

Example Sentences

to commit murder

Commit these numbers to memory.

Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!

Bid him farwell, commit him to the Graue,

Word Forms

• commits
• committing
• committed
• committest
• committedst
• committeth

Synonyms for commit

Depending on context, synonyms include section, check in, charge, give, trust, pull.

Antonyms for commit

Common opposites include divest.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include entrust, trust, confide, give, devote, perpetrate.

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