commit
To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
Example
“Commit these numbers to memory.”
Other meanings
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!”
Synonyms
- trust
Related words
- noncommitting
- autocommit
- decommit
- miscommit
- overcommit
- precommit
- recommit
- uncommit
- undercommit
- commit suicide
- commit to memory
- committable
Word history
From Latin "committō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “commit” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.