commit

Definitions

• (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
• (transitive) To put in charge of a jailer; to imprison.
• (transitive) To have (a person) enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
• (transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
• To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
• (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.)
• (transitive) To make a set of changes permanent.
• (transitive) To confound.
• (obsolete) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
• (obsolete) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.