Definition of: commit

(kə·mit′) v.t. ·mit·ted, ·mit·ting
1. To do; perpetrate.
2. To place in trust or custody; consign; entrust; especially, to consign to an institution or prison.
3. To consign to any person, place, or use.
4. To devote; pledge; hence, to involve, compromise, or bind (oneself).
5. To consign for future reference, preservation, or disposal: to commit a speech to memory or to writing; Commit these bones to the earth.
6. To refer, as to a committee for consideration or report: a parliamentary term. [<L committere join, entrust <com- together + mittere send]
—com·mit′ta·ble adjective Synonyms: assign, confide, consign, entrust, relegate, trust. Commit 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. Consign is a formal word in mercantile use; as, to consign goods to an agent. See LEARN, TRUST. Antonyms: get, obtain, receive, secure, take.