Committal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of entrusting: committal of the property to an attorney.
  • n. The act or an instance of committing to confinement.
  • n. The act of pledging oneself to a particular view or position: articulated her strong committal to world peace.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of entrusting something to someone.
  • n. The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
  • n. The act of perpetrating an offence.
  • n. The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.
  • adj. Of or relating to a committee.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of committing, in any of the senses of the verb; commitment; commission: as, the committal of a trust to a person, of a body to the grave, of a criminal to prison; the or a committal (compromising, betrayal, exposure) of one's self.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of committing a crime
  • n. the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
  • Hypernym
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    Synonym
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    commitment    reference    delegation    binding    commission   
    Rhyme
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    acquittal    belittle    bittle    brittle    kittel    kittle    knittle    little    noncommittal    pittle   
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