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1. Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
   "commit a crime";
   - perpetrate, pull [informal]
    
2. Use entirely for a specific person, activity, or cause
   "She committed herself to the work of God";
   - give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
    
3. Make a set of changes permanent
   "We committed the changes to the Git repository"
    
4. Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
   "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison";
   - institutionalize, institutionalise [Brit], send, charge
    
5. Confer a trust upon
   "I commit my soul to God";
   - entrust, intrust [archaic], trust, confide
    
6. Make an investment
   "commit money into bonds";
   - invest, put, place
    
7. Engage in or perform
   "commit a random act of kindness";
   - practice [N. Amer], practise [Brit, Cdn]
    
8. Transfer to another place so something can be kept or preserved
   "He committed the poem to memory"; "she committed her thoughts to paper"
    
9. (computer science) make permanent changes to a database

Derived forms: committing, commits, committed

Type of: act, alter, apply, change, drop, employ, engage, expend, give, hand, modify, move, pass, pass on, prosecute, pursue, reach, spend, transfer, turn over, use, utilise [Brit], utilize

Encyclopedia: Commit