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Verb: recommit (recommitted,recommitting)  ,ree-ku'mit
  1. Commit again
    "It was recommitted into her custody"
     
  2. Commit once again, as of a crime
    "The ex-convict recommitted the same offence shortly after his release"
     
  3. Send back to a committee
    "The bill was recommitted three times in the House"

Derived forms: recommitting, recommits, recommitted

Type of: commit, confide, entrust, intrust [archaic], perpetrate, pull [informal], refer, trust

Encyclopedia: Recommit