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Synonyms for commit
kəˈmɪtcom·mit
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
commit
Commit, in the sense here considered, is to give in charge, put into care or keeping; to confide or entrust is to commit especially to one's fidelity, confide being used chiefly of mental or spiritual, entrust also of material things; we assign a duty, confide a secret, entrust a treasure; we commit thoughts to writing; commit a paper to the flames, a body to the earth; a prisoner is committed to jail. Consign is a formal word in mercantile use; as, to consign goods to an agent. Religiously, we consign the body to the grave, commit the soul to God. Compare DO.
Synonyms:
assign, confide, consign, entrust, relegate, trustPreposition:
Commit to a friend for safe-keeping; in law, commit to prison; for trial; without bail; in default of bail; on suspicion.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
commit
Synonyms:
perpetrate, execute, confide, relegate, intrust, assign, allocate, consignAntonyms:
miscommit, misconsign, misintrust, omit
Princeton's WordNet
perpetrate, commit, pullverb
perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
"perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
Synonyms:
dedicate, pull in, place, attract, overstretch, perpetrate, intrust, trust, deplumate, force, rive, invest, draw out, pull, get out, take out, institutionalise, give, root for, devote, institutionalize, pluck, charge, practice, deplume, pull up, confide, pull out, draw, consecrate, tear, rend, send, extract, entrust, draw in, rip, displume, putgive, dedicate, consecrate, commit, devoteverb
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"; "consecrate your life to the church"
Synonyms:
chip in, dedicate, cave in, collapse, institutionalize, place, put, impart, pass on, perpetrate, move over, return, establish, reach, present, have, vow, fall in, make, pay, charge, throw, sanctify, gift, kick in, feed, ordinate, break, institutionalise, ease up, apply, give, grant, open, founder, devote, hold, ordain, pass, render, intrust, hallow, practice, sacrifice, yield, turn over, send, confide, leave, invest, give way, bless, consecrate, generate, contribute, entrust, trust, pull, afford, order, handcommit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send, chargeverb
cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
"After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
Synonyms:
ship, beam, dedicate, get off, place, put, mail, consign, excite, perpetrate, intrust, send off, blame, station, agitate, appoint, post, bear down, load, point, consecrate, rouse, shoot down, buck, commove, pull, accuse, institutionalise, lodge, give, transport, bill, shoot, devote, direct, level, file, turn on, charge, practice, broadcast, charge up, send out, invest, confide, air, institutionalize, send, entrust, trust, saddle, tear, burden, transmitentrust, intrust, trust, confide, commitverb
confer a trust upon
"The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
Synonyms:
institutionalize, put, charge, dedicate, intrust, trust, devote, practice, invest, confide, pull, institutionalise, consecrate, give, hope, desire, swear, entrust, perpetrate, leave, bank, rely, place, send, believeinvest, put, commit, placeverb
make an investment
"Put money into bonds"
Synonyms:
dedicate, seat, institutionalize, empower, put, endue, localize, perpetrate, intrust, trust, enthrone, target, vest, post, station, place, frame, point, come in, gift, position, grade, arrange, adorn, assign, pull, lay, institutionalise, give, aim, cast, devote, redact, couch, identify, direct, charge, practice, endow, indue, site, set up, invest, confide, rank, consecrate, rate, clothe, send, induct, entrust, come out, set, order, locate, pose, localise, rangecommit, practiceverb
engage in or perform
"practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
Synonyms:
institutionalize, put, charge, dedicate, institutionalise, trust, devote, drill, invest, confide, pull, use, consecrate, give, intrust, entrust, perpetrate, practice, rehearse, practise, apply, place, do, send, exercise
Dictionary of English Synonymes
commitverb
Synonyms:
intrust, consign, confide, give in trustcommitverb
commitverb
Synonyms:
perpetrate, enact, do, performcommitverb
Synonyms:
imprison, send to prisoncommitverb
commitverb
Synonyms:
compromit, endanger, bring into danger, put at hazard, put in jeopardy
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
commitverb
Synonyms:
intrust, consign, perpetrate, do
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "commit":
committing, perpetrate, engage, undertake, validate, validation, committed, oblige, devote, allocate, hire
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
COMMIT
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How to use commit in a sentence?
There is a specific book explaining that. And when you regularly default your obligations without giving specific explanations in particular, you expose yourself to a default or more permanent sanction. We wanted her to know because it was a way to protect her to explain that to her, on the $15,000 fine, you noticed we did not want to put that fine at the maximum. On purpose, we only wanted to be at 15, because we wanted to send a message that we wouldn’t go to a default right away. We wanted to have a progressive escalation should she continue not to commit to her obligations.
Senegal is lucky. I was planning to commit an attack there in the name of the Islamic State before one of their contacts helped me go to Libya.
But the House is also undercutting itself by a failure to commit to what it's doing.
Many years of sitting as the defendant, at the end of this long case, it is important for me to inform you and especially inform the Cambodian people that I have never wanted to commit a crime against my compatriots or against anyone else, no matter what you will decide, I will die in prison, I will die always remembering the suffering of my Cambodian people.
I wish there were an alternative because I think that punishments should fit the crime, i don’t really feel comfortable living in a world where a person can commit this caliber of a crime and still walk the earth.
Translations for commit
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- يلتزمArabic
- извършвам, обвързвам сеBulgarian
- spáchat, zapsatCzech
- Commit, begehenGerman
- διαπράττουνGreek
- cometer, encomendarSpanish
- سپردن, دربند کردن, زندانی کردن, مرتکب شدن, بد انجامیدنPersian
- liittyä, tehdä, luovuttaa, vaarantaa, ilmoittautua, vangita, lähteä, uskoaFinnish
- confier, commit, commettre, consigner, engager, remettreFrench
- प्रतिबद्धHindi
- elkövet, rábízHungarian
- melakukanIndonesian
- affidare, commettereItalian
- コミットJapanese
- forplikteNorwegian
- bindeNorwegian Nynorsk
- popełniaćPolish
- cometer, comprometerPortuguese
- comiteRomanian
- заключать под стражу, вверять, связывать себя обязательством, коммит, обязываться, совершатьRussian
- здійснитиUkrainian
- phạmVietnamese
- 承诺Chinese
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