- (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 Fling
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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
- A usually brief attempt.
- usage: "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl"
- A brief indulgence of your impulses.
- synonyms: spree
- The act of flinging.
verb
- Throw with force or recklessness.
- usage: "fling the frisbee"
- Move in an abrupt or headlong manner.
- usage: "He flung himself onto the sofa"
- Indulge oneself.
- usage: "I splurged on a new TV"
- synonyms: splurge
- Throw or cast away.
- usage: "Put away your worries"
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- (v.i.) To throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste.
- (v.t.) To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.
- (v.i.) To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.
- (n.) A trifing matter; an object of contempt.
- (n.) A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
- (v.i.) To throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling.
- (n.) A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling.
- (v.t.) To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.
- (n.) A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse.
- (v.t.) To shed forth; to emit; to scatter.
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