commit
 com·mit (kə-mĭtʹ)v. com·mit·ted, com·mit·ting, com·mitsv. tr.
1. To do, perform, or perpetrate:
commit a murder.
2. To put in trust or charge; entrust:
commit oneself to the care of a doctor; commit responsibilities to an assistant.
3. To place officially in confinement or custody, as in a mental health facility.
4. To consign for future use or reference or for preservation:
commit the secret code to memory.
5. To put into a place to be kept safe or to be disposed of.
6.
a. To make known the views of (oneself) on an issue:
I never commit myself on such issues.
b. To bind or obligate, as by a pledge:
They were committed to follow orders.
7. To refer (a legislative bill, for example) to a committee.v. intr.
To pledge or obligate one's own self:
felt that he was too young to commit fully to marriage. [Middle English committen, from Latin committere: com-, com- + mittere, to send.] com·mitʹta·ble adj.
Synonyms: commit, consign, entrust, confide, relegate
These verbs mean to give over to another for a purpose such as care or safekeeping. Commit has the widest application: The troops were committed to the general's charge. I committed the sonata to memory. The patient was committed to the hospital. To consign is to transfer to another's custody or charge: The owner consigned the paintings to a dealer for sale. Entrust and confide stress trust in another: The task was too dangerous to be entrusted to a child. She confided her plans to her family. To relegate is to assign to a specific and especially an inferior category or position: Some scientists relegate parapsychology to the sphere of quackery.
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