committing

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.

To put in charge of a jailer; to imprison.

To have (a person) enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.

“Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!”

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

“to commit a series of heinous crimes”

To join a contest; to match; followed by with.

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 make a set of changes permanent.

(Latinism) To confound.

To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.

To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.

The act by which something is committed.