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Synonyms: commis, commix, commie, comfit, comit, vommit, commat, commot, comsit

Antonyms: commis, commix, commie, comfit, comit, vommit, commat, commot, comsit

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Verb

  1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To give in [[trust]]; to put into [[charge]] or [[keeping]]; to [[entrust]]; to [[consign]]; used with ''to'' or formerly ''unto''.
  2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[imprison]]: to [[forcibly]] [[place]] in a [[jail]].
  3. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[forcibly]] [[evaluate]] and [[treat]] in a [[medical]] [[facility]], [[particularly]] for [[presumed]] [[mental illness]].
  4. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[do]] (something [[bad]]); to [[perpetrate]], as a [[crime]], [[sin]], or [[fault]].
  5. {{lb|en|ambitransitive}} To [[pledge]] or [[bind]]; to [[compromise]], [[expose]], or [[endanger]] by some decisive act or preliminary step. {{q|Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without ''oneself'' etc.}}<ref>http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_speech/v074/74.3shapiro.html</ref>
  6. {{lb|en|transitive|computing|databases}} To make a [[set]] of [[change]]s [[permanent]].
  7. {{lb|en|transitive|programming}} To [[integrate]] new [[revision]]s into the public or [[master]] [[version]] of a [[file]] in a [[version control]] system.
  8. {{lb|en|intransitive|obsolete}} To [[enter]] into a contest; to [[match]]; often followed by ''with''.<ref>{{R:New English Dictionary|Commit|part of speech=v|II|684|1}}</ref>
  9. {{lb|en|acting}} To make decisions that effectively convey elements of [[character]].
  10. {{lb|en|transitive|obsolete|[[Latinism]]}} To [[confound]].
  11. {{lb|en|obsolete|intransitive}} To commit an offence; especially, to [[fornicate]].
  12. {{lb|en|obsolete|intransitive}} To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to [[occur]].

Noun

  1. {{lb|en|computing|databases}} The act of committing (e.g. a [[database]] [[transaction]]), making it a permanent change; such a [[change]].
  2. {{lb|en|programming}} The [[submission]] of [[source code]] or other material to a [[source control]] [[repository]].
  3. {{lb|en|informal|sports|chiefly|US|otherwise|proscribed}} A person, especially a [[high school]] [[athlete]], who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.

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