- (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 Compromising
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(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
- Make a compromise; arrive at a compromise.
- usage: "nobody will get everything he wants; we all must compromise"
- synonyms: compromise
- Settle by concession.
- synonyms: compromise
- Expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute.
- usage: "The nuclear secrets of the state were compromised by the spy"
- synonyms: compromise
adjective
- Making or willing to make concessions.
- usage: "loneliness tore through him... Whenever he thought of... Even the compromising Louis du Tillet"
- synonyms: conciliatory, flexible
- Vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion.
- usage: "she found herself in a compromising situation"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Compromise.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary