Commit and Pawn

• (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

• An article deposited as security.
• A person used by another to gain an end.
  • synonyms: instrument, cat's-paw
• Chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank. (
• Borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan.

verb

• Leave as a guarantee in return for money.
  • usage: "pawn your grandfather's gold watch"
  • synonyms: soak, hock

• (n.) State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.
• (n.) A stake hazarded in a wager.
• (v.t.) To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.
• (n.) Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1.
• (n.) See Pan, the masticatory.
• (n.) A man or piece of the lowest rank.
• (v.t.) To give or deposit in pledge or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch.