- (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 Surrender
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(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
- Acceptance of despair.
- synonyms: resignation
- A verbal act of admitting defeat.
- The delivery of a principal into lawful custody.
- The act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions. )
- usage: "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort"
- synonyms: capitulation, fall
verb
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration (called the surrender value).
- (v.t.) To yield to any influence, emotion, passion or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence or to sleep.
- (v.t.) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege or advantage.
- (n.) The act of surrendering; the act of yielding or resigning one's person or the possession of something, into the power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an enemy; the surrender of a right.
- (v.t.) To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ship.
- (n.) The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition.
- (n.) The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion.
- (v.t.) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion.
- (v.i.) To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons.
- (n.) The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Giving up leasehold rights by a tenant in exchange for a release from future obligations under a lease.