Word Frequency
commit (kəˈmɪt
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Definitions
verb
-mits, -mitting, -mitted tr- to hand over, as for safekeeping; charge; entrust ⇒
to commit a child to the care of its aunt
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See commit to memory
- to confine officially or take into custody ⇒
to commit someone to prison
- usually passive to pledge or align (oneself), as to a particular cause, action, or attitude ⇒
a committed radical
- to order (forces) into action
- to perform (a crime, error, etc); do; perpetrate
- to surrender, esp for destruction ⇒
she committed the letter to the fire
- to refer (a bill, etc) to a committee of a legislature
Derived Forms
comˈmittable adjectivecomˈmitter noun
Word Origin
C14: from Latin committere to join, from com- together + mittere to put, sendTranslations for 'commit'
- British English: commit If someone commits a crime or a sin, they do something illegal or bad.They know who committed the murder.kəˈmɪt VERB
- Arabic: يَرْتَكِبُ
- Brazilian Portuguese: perpretar
- Chinese: 犯（罪）
- Croatian: počiniti
- Czech: spáchat páchat
- Danish: begå
- Dutch: begaan
- European Spanish: cometer
- Finnish: tehdä rikos tai virhe
- French: commettre
- German: begehenVerbrechen
- Greek: διαπράττω
- Italian: commettere
- Japanese: 犯す
- Korean: 저지르다
- Norwegian: begå
- Polish: popełnić popełniać
- Portuguese: comprometer-se
- Romanian: a comite
- Russian: совершать
- Spanish: cometer
- Swedish: begå
- Thai: ให้คำมั่นสัญญา
- Turkish: işlemek
- Ukrainian: вчиняти вчинити
- Vietnamese: phạm phải
Example Sentences Including 'commit'
And now a poor decent man will swing for a crime he did not commit.THE RIVAL QUEENS: A Countess Ashby de la Zouche Mystery (2002)
Balde has already claimed that he is ready to commit himself to a five-year contract with Celtic.Glasgow Herald (2001)
Drapier is not so bold or foolhardy as to second-guess Bertie or Mary and commit 15 names to paper here.Irish Times (2002)
Eight of Persia's top commanders are killed (two commit suicide from shame).Maxim (2004)
He had also bribed three young people to commit acts of vandalism against the Mourne family in order to keep these rumours alive.Double Deceit
I freely admit that in my heart I wished to commit a crime that would reverberate down the centuries.MORTIFICATION: Writers' Stories of their Public Shame (2003)
Or the fund manager's lack of any means to commit new cash to stocks.Globe and Mail (2003)
Samsonov came personally to tell me something too big, too dangerous, to commit to paper.A Daystar of Fear
This, the court heard, merely accelerated their desire to commit suicide.Glasgow Herald (2001)
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