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Commit and Evidence

verb

  • Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
    • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • 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"
  • Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
    • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • 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"
(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

noun

  • Your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief.
    • usage: "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling"
  • An indication that makes something evident.
    • usage: "his trembling was evidence of his fear"
  • Law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved. (

verb

  • Provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes.
    • usage: "His high fever attested to his illness"; "The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication"; "This decision demonstrates his sense of fairness"
  • Provide evidence for.
    • usage: "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"
  • Give evidence.
    • usage: "he was telling on all his former colleague"