Dictionary Entry
commit
commit is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
- 2transitive verb
To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
- 3transitive verb
To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
- 4transitive verb
To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
- 5transitive verb
To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
- 6transitive verb
To confound.
- 7intransitive verb
To sin; esp., to be incontinent.
- 8verb
give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
"She committed herself to the work of God"
"give one's talents to a good cause"
Synonyms
- 9verb
make an investment
"Put money into bonds"
- 10verb
cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
"After the second episode, she had to be committed"
"he was committed to prison"
- 11verb
confer a trust upon
"The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"
"I commit my soul to God"
- 12verb
engage in or perform
"practice safe sex"
"commit a random act of kindness"
Synonyms
- 13verb
perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
"perpetrate a crime"
"pull a bank robbery"
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