committing

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!

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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

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