- (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 Trespass
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
- A wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages.
- Entry to another's property without right or permission.
- synonyms: encroachment, violation, intrusion, usurpation
verb
- Enter unlawfully on someone's property.
- usage: "Don't trespass on my land"
- synonyms: intrude
- Make excessive use of.
- usage: "You are taking advantage of my good will"; "She is trespassing upon my privacy"
- synonyms: take advantage
- Break the law.
- Commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law.
- synonyms: sin, transgress
- Pass beyond (limits or boundaries. ).
- synonyms: transgress, overstep
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.i.) To commit a trespass; especially, to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.
- (v.) Any injury or offence done to another.
- (v.) An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property or relative rights of another.
- (v.i.) To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another.
- (v.i.) To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.
- (v.i.) To commit any offense or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against.
- (v.) Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.
- (v.) An action for injuries accompanied with force.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Unlawful entry or injury to the property of another.