Definitions for commit

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commit com·mit

Spelling: [kuh-mit]

IPA: /kəˈmɪt/

Commit is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in commit (cimmot).

Definitions for commit

verb (used with object)

1. to give in trust or charge; consign.
2. to consign for preservation:
3. to pledge (oneself) to a position on an issue or question; express (one's intention, feeling, etc.):
4. to bind or obligate, as by pledge or assurance; pledge:
5. to entrust, especially for safekeeping; commend:
6. to do; perform; perpetrate:
7. to consign to custody:
8. to place in a mental institution or hospital by or as if by legal authority:
9. to deliver for treatment, disposal, etc.; relegate:
10. to send into a battle:
11. Parliamentary Procedure. to refer (a bill or the like) to a committee for consideration.

verb (used without object)

1. to pledge or engage oneself:

Origin of commit

1350-1400; Middle English committen (Anglo-French committer) Latin committere, equivalent to com- com- + mittere to send, give over

Examples for commit

A people can commit theft; a people can confess theft; a people can repent of theft.

Seevakumaran uploaded six videos to YouTube on March 17, just hours before he would threaten his roommate and commit suicide.

She told me once that it was better to talk about adultery than to commit it!

I determined to commit suicide on the very day on which I left prison.

“What some people fail to realize is that it is not just fraternities that commit sexual assault,” he suggests.

Third, Republicans should commit to compassion in action rather than compassion in appearance.

Let that feeling represent what I could tell you, and commit her to your friendliness with my thanks.'

Voters fill out their name, address, phone number and sign a pledge that they will “commit to vote.”

His out-of-office message appeared to suggest that Jutting had planned to commit suicide, but he apparently changed his mind.

commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.