commit

(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.

(transitive)To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.

(transitive)To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.

Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!

(transitive)To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.

to commit murder

to commit a series of heinous crimes

to commit suicide

(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

to commit to a relationship

8 March, 1769, Junius, letter to the Duke of Grafton You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without committing the honour of your sovereign.

(transitive)(transitive, computing, databases) To make a set of changes permanent.

(transitive)(transitive, programming) To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.

(intransitive, obsolete)To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.

(Latinism, obsolete, transitive)To confound.

(intransitive, obsolete)To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.

(intransitive, obsolete)To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.

(computing, databases) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.

(programming) The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.

(US, informal)(informal, sports, chiefly US, otherwise proscribed) A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.