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Commit and Submit

verb

  • Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
    • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • 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"
  • Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
    • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • 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"
(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

verb

  • Refer for judgment or consideration.
    • usage: "The lawyers submitted the material to the court"
  • Put before.
    • usage: "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
  • Yield to the control of another.
  • Hand over formally.
  • Refer to another person for decision or judgment.
    • usage: "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues"
  • Yield to another's wish or opinion.
    • usage: "The government bowed to the military pressure"
  • Accept or undergo, often unwillingly.
    • usage: "We took a pay cut"
  • Make an application as for a job or funding.
    • usage: "We put in a grant to the NSF"
  • Make over as a return.
    • usage: "They had to render the estate"
  • Accept as inevitable.
    • usage: "He resigned himself to his fate"