Commit and Prove

• (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.

verb

• Be shown or be found to be.
  • usage: "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive"
  • synonyms: turn out, turn up
• Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment.
  • usage: "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
  • synonyms: demonstrate, establish, show, shew
• Provide evidence for.
  • usage: "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"
  • synonyms: testify, bear witness, evidence, show
• Prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof.
• Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to.
  • usage: "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"
  • synonyms: test, try, try out, examine, essay
• Increase in volume.
  • usage: "the dough rose slowly in the warm room"
  • synonyms: rise
• Cause to puff up with a leaven.
  • usage: "unleavened bread"
  • synonyms: raise, leaven
• Take a trial impression of.
• Obtain probate of.
  • usage: "prove a will"

• (v.i.) To make trial; to essay.
• (v.t.) To test, evince, ascertain or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.
• (v.t.) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.
• (v.i.) To be found by experience, trial or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.
• (v.t.) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
• (v.t.) To try or to ascertain by an experiment or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.
• (v.t.) To evince, establish or ascertain, as truth, reality or fact, by argument, testimony or other evidence.
• (v.t.) To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.
• (v.i.) To succeed; to turn out as expected.