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committest

committest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of commit.

Meaning of commit

Verb

commit (third-person singular simple present commits, present participle committing, simple past and past participle committed)

  1. (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
    • Commit these numbers to memory.
  2. (transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
    • and ſome of the Conſpirators committed to the Caſtle of Dublin by us1641, A Great Conspiracy by the Papiſts in the Kingdome of Ireland, Diſcovered by the Lords Juſtices, and Counſell at Dublin, and Proclaimed There Octob. 23, 1641, page 2
  3. (transitive) To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
    • Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!
    Synonyms:
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  4. (transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
    • to commit murder
  5. (ambitransitive) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
    • to commit oneself to a certain action
  6. (transitive) To make a set of changes permanent.
    • When all SQL statements in the transaction are executed successfully, the transaction is committed and all the work that the SQL statements performed is made a permanent part of the database.2005, Thearon Willis, Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Databases, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 343

See all 15 meanings of commit

Origin of committest

From commit + -est.

Questions about committest

What is committest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Committest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of commit.

Words near committest in the dictionary

  1. committeeships
  2. committeewoman
  3. committeewomen
  4. committer
  5. committers
  6. committest
  7. committeth
  8. committible
  9. committies
  10. committing
  11. committing adultery

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