Commit and Compensate

• (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.

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"
  • synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, put, place
• Engage in or perform.
  • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
  • synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

verb

• Adjust for.
  • usage: "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
  • synonyms: counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even up
• Make amends for; pay compensation for.
  • usage: "One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich"; "She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident"
  • synonyms: recompense, repair, indemnify
• Make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities.
  • usage: "he is compensating for being a bad father"
  • synonyms: cover, overcompensate
• Make reparations or amends for.
  • usage: "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
  • synonyms: right, redress, correct
• Do or give something to somebody in return.
  • usage: "Does she pay you for the work you are doing"
  • synonyms: pay, pay off, make up
• Make payment to; compensate.
  • usage: "My efforts were not remunerated"
  • synonyms: recompense, remunerate

• (v.t.) To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.
• (v.i.) To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.
• (v.t.) To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work or a merchant for his losses.