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Commit and Involve

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.

verb

  • Connect closely and often incriminatingly.
    • usage: "This new ruling affects your business"
  • Engage as a participant.
    • usage: "Don't involve me in your family affairs"
  • Have as a necessary feature.
    • usage: "This decision involves many changes"
  • Require as useful, just, or proper.
    • usage: "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
  • Contain as a part.
    • usage: "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"
  • Occupy or engage the interest of.
    • usage: "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"
  • Make complex or intricate or complicated.
    • usage: "The situation was rather involved"