committed
verb
- 1
To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
- 2
To put in charge of a jailer; to imprison.
- 3
To have (a person) enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
“Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!”
- 4
To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
“to commit a series of heinous crimes”
- 5
To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
- 6
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”
- 7
To make a set of changes permanent.
- 8
(Latinism) To confound.
- 9
To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
- 10
To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
adjective
- 1
Obligated by a pledge to some course of action.
- 2
Showing commitment.
- 3
Associated in an exclusive (but not necessarily permanent) sexual relationship.
- 4
Required by logic to endorse the conclusion of an argument.
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