Commit and Ditch

• (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.

noun

• A long narrow excavation in the earth.
• Any small natural waterway.

verb

• Forsake.
  • usage: "ditch a lover"
• Throw away.
  • usage: "Chuck these old notes"
  • synonyms: chuck
• Sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly.
  • usage: "The company dumped him after many years of service"; "She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man"
  • synonyms: dump
• Make an emergency landing on water.
• Crash or crash-land.
  • usage: "ditch a car"; "ditch a plane"
• Cut a trench in, as for drainage.
  • usage: "ditch the land to drain it"; "trench the fields"
  • synonyms: trench

• (v.t.) To surround with a ditch.
• (v.t.) To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.
• (v.i.) To dig a ditch or ditches.
• (v.t.) To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.
• (n.) A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.
• (n.) Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.