Synonyms for commit
kəˈmɪtcom·mit

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1. 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, trust

   Preposition:
   Commit to a friend for safe-keeping; in law, commit to prison; for trial; without bail; in default of bail; on suspicion.

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1. commit

   Synonyms:
   perpetrate, execute, confide, relegate, intrust, assign, allocate, consign

   Antonyms:
   miscommit, misconsign, misintrust, omit

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1. 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, put

2. give, 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, hand

3. commit, 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, transmit

4. entrust, 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, believe

5. invest, 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, range

6. commit, 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

Matched Categories

1. • Act
   • Engage

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1. commitverb

   Synonyms:
   intrust, consign, confide, give in trust

2. commitverb

   Synonyms:
   deposit, put, place, lay

3. commitverb

   Synonyms:
   perpetrate, enact, do, perform

4. commitverb

   Synonyms:
   imprison, send to prison

5. commitverb

   Synonyms:
   engage, pledge, implicate

6. commitverb

   Synonyms:
   compromit, endanger, bring into danger, put at hazard, put in jeopardy

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1. commitverb

   Synonyms:
   intrust, consign, perpetrate, do

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1. List of paraphrases for "commit":

   committing, perpetrate, engage, undertake, validate, validation, committed, oblige, devote, allocate, hire

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1. COMMIT

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1. Melinda Urbina:

   The warrant was issued due to evidence that suggested Mr. Oliver intended to cause serious bodily injury and commit an act clearly dangerous to human life that caused the death of an individual.

2. Bucky Hellwig:

   The start of the year is very poor, so that's got investors on the defensive, in the face of weakening global growth... it's difficult to find reasons to commit money at this point even if one is bullish.

3. Prime Minister David Cameron:

   I'm not going to talk about specific individuals, when there are people anywhere in the world who commit appalling and heinous crimes against British citizens, we will do everything we can with the police, with the security services, with all that we have at our disposal to find these people and put them out of action.

4. Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau:

   We're very proactive. We catch them before they commit another crime, with what’s happening all around us -- carjackings all through the Chicagoland area going into DuPage County now where they've never seen that before.

5. Ashti Hawrami:

   We simply cannot afford returning to the old arrangements with Baghdad and widening the financial gap again, we would accept a real budget that Baghdad can commit to without conditions, but we don't want to be part of a theoretical budget which isn't worth the paper it is written on.