- (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 Sin
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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
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(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.
noun
- Estrangement from god.
- synonyms: sinfulness, wickedness
- An act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will.
- synonyms: sinning
- Ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.
- synonyms: sine
- Akkadian) god of the Moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna. (
- The 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- Violent and excited activity.
- usage: "they began to fight like sin"
- synonyms: hell
verb
- Commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law.
- synonyms: transgress, trespass
- Commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake.
- usage: "I blundered during the job interview"
- synonyms: drop the ball, blunder, boob, goof
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- (n.) A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
- (n.) To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against.
- (n.) To violate human rights, law or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.
- (n.) An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
- (adv.,prep.,&conj.) Old form of Since.
- (n.) Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.
- (n.) An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.
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