com·mit   (kə-mĭt')    v.   com·mit·ted, com·mit·ting, com·mits v.   tr. To do, perform, or perpetrate: commit a murder. To put in trust or charge; entrust: commit oneself to the care of a doctor; commit responsibilities to an assistant. To place officially in confinement or custody, as in a mental health facility. To consign for future use or reference or for preservation: commit the secret code to memory. To put into a place to be kept safe or to be disposed of. To make known the views of (oneself) on an issue: I never commit myself on such issues. To bind or obligate, as by a pledge: They were committed to follow orders. 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·mit'ta·ble adj. Synonyms: 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.

Commit

Com*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Committed; p. pr. & vb. n. Committing.] [L. committere, commissum, to connect, commit; com- + mittere to send. See Mission.]

1. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

Commit thy way unto the Lord. --Ps. xxxvii. 5.

Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave. --Shak.

2. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.

These two were committed. --Clarendon.

3. To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.

Thou shalt not commit adultery. --Ex. xx. 14.

4. To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with. [R.] --Dr. H. More.

5. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.

You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without commiting the honor of your sovereign. --Junius.

Any sudden assent to the proposal . . . might possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States. --Marshall.

6. To confound. [An obsolete Latinism.]

Committing short and long [quantities]. --Milton.

To commit a bill (Legislation), to refer or intrust it to a committee or others, to be considered and reported.

To commit to memory, or To commit, to learn by heart; to memorize.

Syn: To Commit, Intrust, Consign.

Usage: These words have in common the idea of transferring from one's self to the care and custody of another. Commit is the widest term, and may express only the general idea of delivering into the charge of another; as, to commit a lawsuit to the care of an attorney; or it may have the special sense of intrusting with or without limitations, as to a superior power, or to a careful servant, or of consigning, as to writing or paper, to the flames, or to prison. To intrust denotes the act of committing to the exercise of confidence or trust; as, to intrust a friend with the care of a child, or with a secret. To consign is a more formal act, and regards the thing transferred as placed chiefly or wholly out of one's immediate control; as, to consign a pupil to the charge of his instructor; to consign goods to an agent for sale; to consign a work to the press.

commit 

Main Entry: com·mit
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: com·mit·ted; com·mit·ting
transitive verb 1 a : to put into another's charge or trust : ENTRUST, CONSIGN <committed her children to her sister's care> b : to place in a prison or mental hospital esp. by judicial order committed to the Central Louisiana State Hospital —In the Matter of K.G., 531 So. Second 575 (1988)> —compare INSTITUTIONALIZE, INTERDICT c : to send (as a legislative bill) to a committee for consideration and report <commit the crime bill to the joint committee>
2 : to carry into action deliberately : PERPETRATE committed on the high seas —U.S. Constitution article I>
3 : OBLIGATE, BIND intransitive verb : to obligate or bind oneself commit to the irrevocable order>

Main Entry: com·mit
Pronunciation: k&-'mit
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: com·mit·ted;com·mit·ting
: to place in a prison or mental institution committed by the court to a state hospital> —com·mit·ta·ble /-'mit-&-b&l/ adjective

commit com·mit (kə-mĭt')
v. com·mit·ted, com·mit·ting, com·mits
To place officially in confinement or custody, as in a mental health facility.