v.
(commits, committing, committed)
- perpetrate or carry out (a mistake, crime, or immoral act).
- pledge or bind to a course, policy, or use.
▸
[
often as adj. committed]
dedicate to a cause:
a committed Christian.
▸
(be committed to)
be in a long-term emotional relationship with.
- transfer for safe keeping or permanent preservation.
▸send to prison or psychiatric hospital, or for trial in a higher court.
- refer (a parliamentary or legislative bill) to a committee.
Derivative
- committable adj.
- committer n.
Etymology
ME: from L. committere ‘join, entrust’ (in med. L. ‘put into custody’), from com- ‘with’ + mittere ‘put or send’.