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say it: kuh-MIT
commit is a verb meaning "perform an act, usually with a negative connotation". It carries 6 recorded senses.
perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
“perpetrate a crime”
“pull a bank robbery”
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”
cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
“After the second episode, she had to be committed”
“he was committed to prison”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for commit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.