commit

Meaning

1. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
2. To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
3. To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
4. To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
5. 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.)
6. To make a set of changes permanent.
7. To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
8. (obsolete) To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
9. (obsolete) To confound.
10. (obsolete) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
11. (obsolete) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
12. die from suicide.

entrust

do wrong

refer to

offer a post

give in charge

place in trust

fidanzarsi

believe in

cause trouble

commit a crime

devolve

Frequency

Hyphenated as

com‧mit

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəˈmɪt/

Borrowed from Latin committō (“to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc.”), from com- (“together”) + mittō (“to send”). See mission.

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