3syllables
committing
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Definitions ofcommitting
1verb
- To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
- To put in charge of a jailer; to imprison.
- To have (a person) enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
Example: "Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!"
- To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
Example: "to commit a series of heinous crimes"
- To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
- To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
Example: "to commit oneself to a certain action"
- To make a set of changes permanent.
- (Latinism) To confound.
- To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
- To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
1noun
- The act by which something is committed.
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