- (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 Wrong
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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
- That which is contrary to the principles of justice or law.
- usage: "he feels that you are in the wrong"
- synonyms: wrongfulness
- Any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right.
- synonyms: legal injury, damage
verb
- Treat unjustly; do wrong to.
adjective
- Not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth.
- usage: "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions"
- synonyms: incorrect
- Contrary to conscience or morality or law.
- usage: "it is wrong for the rich to take advantage of the poor"; "cheating is wrong"; "it is wrong to lie"
- Not appropriate for a purpose or occasion.
- usage: "said all the wrong things"
- synonyms: improper
- Not functioning properly.
- usage: "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine"
- Based on or acting or judging in error.
- usage: "it is wrong to think that way"
- Not in accord with established usage or procedure.
- usage: "the wrong medicine"; "the wrong way to shuck clams"; "it is incorrect for a policeman to accept gifts"
- synonyms: incorrect
- Used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward.
- usage: "socks worn wrong side out"
- Badly timed.
- usage: "an ill-timed intervention"; "you think my intrusion unseasonable"; "an untimely remark"; "it was the wrong moment for a joke"
- synonyms: ill-timed, unseasonable, untimely
- Characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules.
- usage: "he submitted a faulty report"; "an incorrect transcription"; the wrong side of the road"
adverb
- In an inaccurate manner.
- usage: "he decided to reveal the details only after other sources had reported them incorrectly"; "she guessed wrong"
- synonyms: incorrectly, wrongly
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- (a.) Not fit or suitable to an end or object; not appropriate for an intended use; not according to rule; unsuitable; improper; incorrect; as, to hold a book with the wrong end uppermost; to take the wrong way.
- (a.) Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth.
- (a.) Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; usually, an act that involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts injury on a person; any injury done to or received from; another; a trespass; a violation of right.
- (adv.) In a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill; erroneously; wrongly.
- (a.) Deviation or departure from truth or fact; state of falsity; error; as, to be in the wrong.
- (a.) Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral right.
- (v.t.) To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure.
- (v.t.) To impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable of a base act, you wrong me.
- (a.) That which is not right.
- (a.) Not according to the laws of good morals, whether divine or human; not suitable to the highest and best end; not morally right; deviating from rectitude or duty; not just or equitable; not true; not legal; as, a wrong practice; wrong ideas; wrong inclinations and desires.
- (a.) Not according to truth; not conforming to fact or intent; not right; mistaken; erroneous; as, a wrong statement.
- imp. of Wring. Wrung.
- (a.) Twisted; wry; as, a wrong nose.
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