commit
/kəˈmɪt/ verb B1- 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.
- To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
- To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness. · Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!
- To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault. · to commit murder· to commit a series of heinous crimes
- 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.) · to commit oneself to a certain action· to commit to a relationship
- To make a set of changes permanent.
- To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
- To make decisions that effectively convey elements of character. · To make this scene land, you really have to commit.
Plural commit · He/she/it commits · Past committed · Past participle committed · -ing form committing
Verb forms
- Base form
- commit
- He/she/it
- commits
- Past
- committed
- Past participle
- committed
- -ing form
- committing
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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My end is that the crime was committed half an hour earlier than reported; that Mrs.
Some of your people have committed the strangest mistake—they have just arrested Edmond Dantès, mate of my vessel.”
Count the cost before you commit yourselves.
According to the story given to us, the assassin had less than a minute after the murder had been committed to take that ring, which was under another ring, from the dead man’s finger, to replace the other ring—a thing which he would surely never have done—and to put that singular card beside his victim.
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