Commit and Plight

• (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

• A situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one.
  • usage: "finds himself in a most awkward predicament"; "the woeful plight of homeless people"
  • synonyms: predicament, quandary
• A solemn pledge of fidelity.
  • synonyms: troth

verb

• Give to in marriage.
  • synonyms: betroth, engage, affiance
• Promise solemnly and formally.
  • usage: "I pledge that I will honor my wife"
  • synonyms: pledge

• imp. & p. p. of Pluck.
• (n.) Condition; state; -- risk or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.
• (v.t.) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
• imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.
• (n.) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
• (n.) To promise; to engage; to betroth.
• (n.) To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods.
• (n.) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.