- (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 Dispatch
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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.
noun
- An official report (usually sent in haste.
- synonyms: despatch, communique
- The act of sending off something.
- The property of being prompt and efficient.
- usage: "it was done with dispatch"
- synonyms: despatch, expedition, expeditiousness
- Killing a person or animal.
- synonyms: despatch
verb
- Send away towards a designated goal.
- Complete or carry out.
- usage: "discharge one's duties"
- Kill intentionally and with premeditation.
- usage: "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
- Dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently.
- usage: "He dispatched the task he was assigned"
- Kill without delay.
- usage: "the traitor was dispatched by the conspirators"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.
- (v.t.) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
- (v.t.) To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.
- (v.t.) A message transmitted by telegraph.
- (v.t.) A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; -- often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches.
- (v.t.) To rid; to free.
- (v.t.) To send out of the world; to put to death.
- (v.t.) To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste.
- (v.i.) To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business.
- (v.t.) Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.
- (v.t.) The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste.
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