Commit

Definition - Verb
1 a  : to put into another's charge or trust
: See also entrust See also consign<committed her children to her sister's care>
b  : to place in a prison or mental hospital esp. by judicial order <was found to be gravely disabled and was involuntarily committed to the Central Louisiana State Hospital In the Matter of K.G., 531 So. 2d 575 (1988)>
compare institutionalize interdict
c  : to send (as a legislative bill) to a committee for consideration and report <~ the crime bill to the joint committee>
2  : to carry into action deliberately
: See also perpetrate<to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas U.S. Constitution art. I>
3  : See also obligate See also bind
: to obligate or bind oneself <would not ~ to the irrevocable order>

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