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com·mit

(kə-mĭt′)

v. com·mit·ted, com·mit·ting, com·mits

v.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 consign for future use or for preservation: We must commit the necessary funds for the project.

4. To place officially in confinement or custody, as in a mental health facility.

5. To put into a place to be disposed of or kept safe: committed the manuscript to the flames.

a. To make known the views of (oneself) on an issue: I never commit myself on such issues.

b. To bind, obligate, or devote, as by a pledge: They were committed to follow orders. She committed herself to her art.

7. To refer (a legislative bill, for example) to a committee.

v.intr.

To pledge, obligate, or devote 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·mit′ta·ble adj.

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committed

(kəˈmɪtɪd)

adj

1. having a strong commitment to an ideology, religion, etc

2. supporting; in favour of

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Adj.	1.	committed - bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude; "committed church members"; "a committed Marxist" uncommitted - not bound or pledged
	2.	committed - associated in an exclusive sexual relationship attached loving - feeling or showing love and affection; "loving parents"; "loving glances"

committed

adjective

1. dedicated, devoted, loyal, intent, faithful, devout, resolute, adherent, dutiful He said the government remained committed to attaining peace.

2. pledged, involved, promised, tied, engaged, obliged, duty-bound It would have meant cancelling several meetings which I was already committed to.

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Translations

مُلْتَزِم بِ

angažovanýzavázaný

engagere sig

verpflichtet

comprometido entregado

engagé

elkötelezett

skuldbundinn; staîfastur

commesso impegnato

engasjert forpliktet

angažovaný

kendini adamış

承诺的

committed

[kəˈmɪtɪd] ADJ → comprometido
a committed writer → un escritor comprometido

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committed

[kəˈmɪtɪd] adj

[writer, politician] → engagé(e); [Christian] → convaincu(e)

to be committed to sth [+ aim] → être attaché(e) à qch

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committed

adj (= dedicated) → engagiert; he is so committed to his work that … → er geht so in seiner Arbeit auf, dass …; all his life he has been committed to this cause → er hat sich sein Leben lang für diese Sache eingesetzt

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committed

[kəˈmɪtɪd] adj (Christian) → convinto/a; (writer) → impegnato/a

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commit

(kəˈmit) – past tense past participle comˈmitted – verb

1. to perform; to do (especially something illegal). He committed the murder when he was drunk.

2. to hand over (a person) to an institution etc for treatment, safekeeping etc. committed to prison.

3. to put (oneself) under a particular obligation. She has committed herself to looking after her dead brother's children till the age of 18.

comˈmitment noun

obligation. She could not take the job because of family commitments.

comˈmittal noun

the act of committing (to an institution).

comˈmitted adjective

pledged to do, or to support, something. He was committed to looking after his uncle; He is a committed socialist.

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The medical man who examined him, being informed of this circumstance, considered the post-mortem appearances as being perfectly compatible with murder by smothering--that is to say, with murder committed by some person, or persons, pressing the pillow over the nose and mouth of the deceased, until death resulted from congestion of the lungs.

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(3) that during their military movement they should have at their head a man who could justify to himself and to them the deceptions, robberies, and murders which would have to be committed during that movement.

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"I don't know that I said anything about the time that had passed since the crime was committed," she answered, sharply.

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The convention appears to have been attentive to both these points: they have directed the President to be chosen by select bodies of electors, to be deputed by the people for that express purpose; and they have committed the appointment of senators to the State legislatures.

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Well, in short, actions that all, perhaps, commit; but which, as though purposely, occurred to me at the very time when I was most conscious that they ought not to be committed. The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was "sublime and beautiful," the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.

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A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself guilty of the crime ascribed to Justine, but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me.

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We are on the spot where the crime was committed. We have nothing else to discuss but the crime.

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I have a man here, who committed a murder eight- and-twenty years ago.

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"Peace," said Don Quixote; "where hast thou ever seen or heard that a knight-errant has been arraigned before a court of justice, however many homicides he may have committed?"

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Neither is it enough, to consult concerning persons secundum genera, as in an idea, or mathematical description, what the kind and character of the person should be; for the greatest errors are committed, and the most judgment is shown, in the choice of individuals.

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And committed the special would have been, only Jinks, who was the magistrate's adviser (having had a legal education of three years in a country attorney's office), whispered the magistrate that he thought it wouldn't do; so the magistrate made a speech, and said, that in consideration of the special's family, he would merely reprimand and discharge him.

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The unhappy girl committed suicide on discovering the fraud to which she had been subjected.