- (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
- (v.t.) To confound.
- (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
- (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
- (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
- (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
- (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.
Commit and Apprehend
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verb
- Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
- usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
- synonyms: perpetrate, pull
- Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
- usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
- synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
- Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
- usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
- synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
- Confer a trust upon.
- usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
- Make an investment.
- usage: "Put money into bonds"
- Engage in or perform.
- usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
- synonyms: practice
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(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
verb
- Get the meaning of something.
- usage: "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter"
- synonyms: grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass
- Take into custody.
- usage: "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
- Anticipate with dread or anxiety.
- synonyms: quail at
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To anticipate; especially, to anticipate with anxiety, dread or fear; to fear.
- (v.i.) To be apprehensive; to fear.
- (v.t.) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
- (v.t.) To know or learn with certainty.
- (v.i.) To think, believe or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
- (v.t.) To take or seize; to take hold of.
- (v.t.) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
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