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Commit   /kəmˈɪt/   Listen
Commit

verb
(past & past part. committed; pres. part. committing)
1.
Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.  Synonyms: perpetrate, pull.  "Pull a bank robbery"
2.
Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.  Synonyms: consecrate, dedicate, devote, give.  "Give one's talents to a good cause" , "Consecrate your life to the church"
3.
Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.  Synonyms: charge, institutionalise, institutionalize, send.  "He was committed to prison"
4.
Confer a trust upon.  Synonyms: confide, entrust, intrust, trust.  "I commit my soul to God"
5.
Make an investment.  Synonyms: invest, place, put.  Antonym: divest.
6.
Engage in or perform.  Synonym: practice.  "Commit a random act of kindness"



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"Commit" Quotes from Famous Books



... an accusation against the count by him of an intention to commit a high crime, and this merely on the evidence of his page, would appear like an attempt to injure ...
— The Boy Knight • G.A. Henty
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... believe in one God. 2. I renounce idol-worship. 3. I will do my best to lead a moral life. 4. If I commit any sin through the weakness of my moral nature I will repent of it and ask the ...
— Two Old Faiths - Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans • J. Murray Mitchell and William Muir
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... if to-morrow we shall be justified in wrenching from capitalism all the industries, why, when it is a question of life or death for us to win or to lose a strike, is it not just to remove a screw, derange a wheel, break a thread, or commit, in any way whatever, an act of sabotage on a machine which otherwise would become the very beginning of our defeat in the hands ...
— The Red Conspiracy • Joseph J. Mereto
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... long series of such outrages, of which I was doomed to be a witness and a participant. It struck me with awful force. It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass. It was a most terrible spectacle. I wish I could commit to paper the feelings with which I ...
— The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave • Frederick Douglass
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... ineffectually consumed in a treaty which was negotiated at the distance of three thousand miles between Paris and Antioch; and, as soon as Julian perceived that his modest and respectful behavior served only to irritate the pride of an implacable adversary, he boldly resolved to commit his life and fortune to the chance of a civil war. He gave a public and military audience to the quaestor Leonas: the haughty epistle of Constantius was read to the attentive multitude; and Julian protested, with the most flattering deference, that he was ready ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon
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