committed

/kəˈmɪtɪd/

verb

  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    To put in charge of a jailer; to imprison.

  3. 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. 4

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

    to commit a series of heinous crimes
  5. 5

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

  6. 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. 7

    To make a set of changes permanent.

  8. 8

    (Latinism) To confound.

  9. 9

    To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.

  10. 10

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Obligated by a pledge to some course of action.

  2. 2

    Showing commitment.

  3. 3

    Associated in an exclusive (but not necessarily permanent) sexual relationship.

  4. 4

    Required by logic to endorse the conclusion of an argument.

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