- (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 Doom
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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 unpleasant or disastrous destiny.
- usage: "everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"; "that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world"
- synonyms: doomsday, day of reckoning, end of the world
verb
- Decree or designate beforehand.
- usage: "She was destined to become a great pianist"
- Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law.
- usage: "He was condemned to ten years in prison"
- Make certain of the failure or destruction of.
- usage: "This decision will doom me to lose my position"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death.
- (v.t.) Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.
- (v.t.) That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, especially unhappy destiny; penalty.
- (v.t.) To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
- (v.t.) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
- (v.t.) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
- (v.t.) Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
- (v.t.) To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.
- (v.t.) Ruin; death.
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