Commit and Leave

• (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.

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"
  • synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, put, place
• Engage in or perform.
  • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
  • synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

noun

• The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty.
  • usage: "a ten day's leave to visit his mother"
  • synonyms: leave of absence
• Permission to do something.
  • usage: "she was granted leave to speak"
• The act of departing politely.
  • usage: "he disliked long farewells"; "he took his leave"; "parting is such sweet sorrow"
  • synonyms: farewell, leave-taking, parting

verb

• Go away from a place.
  • usage: "At what time does your train leave"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight"
  • synonyms: go forth, go away
• Go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness.
  • usage: "She left a mess when she moved out"; "His good luck finally left him"; "her husband left her after 20 years of marriage"; "she wept thinking she had been left behind"
• Act or be so as to become in a specified state.
  • usage: "The inflation left them penniless"; "The president's remarks left us speechless"
• Leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking.
  • usage: "leave it as is"; "leave the young fawn alone"; "leave the flowers that you see in the park behind"
  • synonyms: leave alone, leave behind
• Move out of or depart from.
  • usage: "leave the room"; "the fugitive has left the country"
  • synonyms: exit, go out, get out
• Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain.
  • usage: "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway"
  • synonyms: allow for, allow, provide
• Have as a result or residue.
  • usage: "The water left a mark on the silk dress"; "Her blood left a stain on the napkin"
  • synonyms: result, lead
• Remove oneself from an association with or participation in.
  • usage: "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes"
  • synonyms: depart, pull up stakes
• Put into the care or protection of someone.
  • usage: "He left the decision to his deputy"; "leave your child the nurse's care"
  • synonyms: entrust
• Leave or give by will after one's death.
  • usage: "My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry"; "My grandfather left me his entire estate"
  • synonyms: bequeath, will
• Have left or have as a remainder.
  • usage: "That left the four of us"; "19 minus 8 leaves 11"
• Be survived by after one's death.
  • usage: "He left six children"; "At her death, she left behind her husband and 11 cats"
  • synonyms: leave behind
• Transmit (knowledge or skills. )
  • usage: "give a secret to the Russians"; "leave your name and address here"; "impart a new skill to the students"
  • synonyms: impart, give, pass on
• Leave behind unintentionally.
  • usage: "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant"; "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors"
  • synonyms: forget

• (v.) To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.
• (v.) To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.
• (v.) To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.
• (v.i.) To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.
• (v.) To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.
• (v.t.) To raise; to levy.
• (v.i.) To depart; to set out.
• (v.) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit -- with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators.
• (v.i.) To cease; to desist; to leave off.
• (v.) To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece.
• (v.) To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.
• (n.) The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; -- used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.
• (n.) Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.