Commit and Declare

• (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

• State emphatically and authoritatively.
  • usage: "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with"
• Announce publicly or officially.
  • usage: "The President declared war"
  • synonyms: announce
• State firmly.
  • usage: "He declared that he was innocent"
• Declare to be.
  • usage: "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent"
  • synonyms: adjudge, hold
• Authorize payments of.
  • usage: "declare dividends"
• Designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand.
• Make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official.
  • usage: "Do you have anything to declare"
• Proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against.
  • usage: "His wife declared at once for moving to the West Coast"

• (v.t.) To make clear; to free from obscurity.
• (v.t.) To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc.
• (v.t.) To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false.
• (v.t.) To make known by language; to communicate or manifest explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim; to announce.
• (v.i.) To state the plaintiff's cause of action at law in a legal form; as, the plaintiff declares in trespass.
• (v.i.) To make a declaration or an open and explicit avowal; to proclaim one's self; -- often with for or against; as, victory declares against the allies.