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committed

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com·mit  (k-mt)
v. com·mit·ted, com·mit·ting, com·mits
v.tr.
1. To do, perform, or perpetrate: commit a murder.
2. To put in trust or charge; entrust: commit oneself to the care of a doctor; commit responsibilities to an assistant.
3. To place officially in confinement or custody, as in a mental health facility.
4. To consign for future use or reference or for preservation: commit the secret code to memory.
5. To put into a place to be kept safe or to be disposed of.
6.
a. To make known the views of (oneself) on an issue: I never commit myself on such issues.
b. To bind or obligate, as by a pledge: They were committed to follow orders.
7. To refer (a legislative bill, for example) to a committee.
v.intr.
To pledge or obligate one's own self: felt that he was too young to commit fully to marriage.

[Middle English committen, from Latin committere : com-, com- + mittere, to send.]

com·mitta·ble adj.
Synonyms: commit, consign, entrust, confide, relegate
These verbs mean to give over to another for a purpose such as care or safekeeping. Commit has the widest application: The troops were committed to the general's charge. I committed the sonata to memory. The patient was committed to the hospital.
To consign is to transfer to another's custody or charge: The owner consigned the paintings to a dealer for sale.
Entrust and confide stress trust in another: The task was too dangerous to be entrusted to a child. She confided her plans to her family.
To relegate is to assign to a specific and especially an inferior category or position: Some scientists relegate parapsychology to the sphere of quackery.

committed
Adjective
having pledged oneself to a particular belief or course of action: a committed pacifist
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.committed - bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude; "committed church members"; "a committed Marxist"
uncommitted - not bound or pledged
2.committed - associated in an exclusive sexual relationship
loving - feeling or showing love and affection; "loving parents"; "loving glances"
Translations
committed [kəˈmɪtɪd] adj [writer, politician etc] → comprometido
committed [kəˈmɪtɪd] adj [writer, politician etc] → engagé(e)
committed [kəˈmɪtɪd] commit adjengagiert
committed [kəˈmɪtɪd] adj [writer] → impegnato/a; [Christian] → convinto/a


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A MAN committed a murder, and was pursued by the relations of the man whom he murdered.
and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.
Nevertheless, it was conveyed away under cover of the night and committed to the care of a skilful joiner.
 
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