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adjective

committed adj.

Bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude. Opposite of uncommitted. Note: (Narrower terms: bound up, involved, wrapped up; dedicated, devoted; pledged, sworn)

Associated in an exclusive sexual relationship; also called attached. Opposite of unattached. Note: (Narrower terms: affianced, bespoken, betrothed, engaged, pledged, promised(predicate); married) (Also See: loving.)

Synonyms: attached.

Consigned involuntarily to custody, as in a prison or mental institution.

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Etymology of 'Committed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... approved of what he said. They slaughtered them and roasted their flesh. It was then that I awakened from my sleep. As I came down to the ship the smell of the roasting flesh came to me. Then I knew that a terrible deed had been committed and that a dreadful thing would befall all ...

— The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy • Padriac Colum

... York City, 1885. Educated in New York private schools and lived much abroad. In 1918, with her twin sister, she went into Red Cross Canteen work and was stationed at Chalons. As a result of depression due to nerve strain, both sisters committed suicide by jumping overboard from the steamer on which they were coming home. For their War service the French Government later awarded them the Croix de Guerre. Miss Cromwell's Poems in 1919 divided with Mr. Neihardt's (q.v.) Song of ...

— Contemporary American Literature - Bibliographies and Study Outlines • John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert

... he troubled his father at intervals until he committed a crime in a foreign country, where he was tried, convicted, and imprisoned for ...

— Frank Merriwell Down South • Burt L. Standish

... Ulster Council accepted the terms, no doubt with great reluctance. The signatories to the Covenant in the three western counties felt themselves betrayed. The whole body found itself committed to acceptance of Home Rule in principle for twenty-six counties. But the war necessity was pressed upon ...

— John Redmond's Last Years • Stephen Gwynn

... conversation with Murphy, who now advanced to the squire, and begged to assure him there must be some mistake in the business, for that he had never committed the impertinence ...

— Handy Andy, Volume One - A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes • Samuel Lover

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