- (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 Involve
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(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.
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"
- synonyms: imply
- 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"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
- (v.t.) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
- (v.t.) To envelop, infold, entangle or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.
- (v.t.) To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
- (v.t.) To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ or absorb.
- (v.t.) To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
- (v.t.) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
- (v.t.) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.
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