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To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
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To put in charge of a jailer; to imprison.
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To have (a person) enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
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Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!
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To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
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to commit a series of heinous crimes
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To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
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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.)
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to commit oneself to a certain action
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To make a set of changes permanent.
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(Latinism) To confound.
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To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
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To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.