To give in trust; put into charge or keeping; intrust; surrender; give up; consign: with to or unto.To engage; involve; put or bring into risk or danger by a preliminary step or decision which cannot be recalled; compromise.To consign to custody by official warrant, as a criminal or a lunatic; specifically, to send to prison for a short term or for trial.In legislation, to refer or intrust to a committee or select number of persons for their consideration and report.To memorize; learn by heart: a shortened colloquial form of the phrase to commit to memory: as, have you committed your speech?To do or perform (especially something reprehensible, wrong, inapt, etc.); perpetrate: as, to commit murder, treason, felony, or trespass; to commit a blunder or a solecism.To join or put together unfitly or heterogeneously; match improperly or incongruously; confound: a Latinism.To consider; regard; account.To speak or act in such a manner as virtually to bind one's self to a certain line of conduct, or to the approval of a certain opinion or course of action: as, he has committed himself to the support of the foreign policy of the government; avoid committing yourself.Synonyms Intrust, Confide, Commit, Consign, agree in general in expressing a transfer from the care or keeping of one to that of another. To intrust is to give to another in trust, to put into another's care with confidence in him. Confide is still more expressive of trust or confidence, especially in the receiver's discretion or integrity; the word is now used most of secrets, but may be used more widely. Commit implies some measure of formality in the act; it is the most general of these words. Consign implies still greater formality in the surrender: as, to consign goods to a person for sale; to consign the dead to the grave. To consign seems the most final as an act; to commit stands next to it in this respect.To commit adultery.To consign to prison; to exercise the power of imprisoning.n. A game of cards.
