commit

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.

• Commit these numbers to memory.

To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.

To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.

• Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!

To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.

• to commit murder
• to commit a series of heinous crimes
• to commit suicide

To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step.

• to commit oneself to a certain action
• to commit to a relationship

To make a set of changes permanent.

To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.

To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.

To make decisions that effectively convey elements of character.

• To make this scene land, you really have to commit.

To confound.

To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.

To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.

The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.

The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.

A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.