commit

1. (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.Examples: "Bid him farwell, commit him to the Graue,"; "Commit thy way vnto the Lord: trust also in him, and he shall bring it to passe."; "If we take in hand any Volume; of Divinity or School Metaphyſics, for Inſtance; let us aſk, Does it contain any abſtract Reaſonings concerning Quantity or Number? No. Does it contain any experimental Reaſonings concerning Matters of Fact or Exiſtence? No. Commit it then to the Flames: For it can contain nothing but Sophiſtry and Illuſion."transitive

2. (transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.Examples: "and ſome of the Conſpirators committed to the Caſtle of Dublin by us"transitive

3. (transitive) To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.Examples: "Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!"Synonyms: 5150, sectiontransitive

4. (transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.Examples: "to commit murder"; "to commit a series of heinous crimes"; "to commit suicide"transitive

5. (ambitransitive) 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.)Examples: "to commit oneself to a certain action"; "to commit to a relationship"; "8 March, 1769, Junius, letter to the Duke of Grafton You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without committing the honour of your sovereign."ambitransitive

6. (transitive, computing, databases) To make a set of changes permanent.Examples: "When all SQL statements in the transaction are executed successfully, the transaction is committed and all the work that the SQL statements performed is made a permanent part of the database."; "We can commit all unstaged files with one command: […]"transitive