commit suicide

commit | American Dictionary

commit
verb

commitverb (PROMISE)

[ I/T ]us/kəˈmɪt/-tt-
to promise to give yourself, your money, your time, etc., to support something:
[ I/T ]They wouldn’t commit (to giving) enough time or money to the project.
[ I/T ]us/kəˈmɪt/-tt-
If you do not commit yourself about something, you refuse to express an opinion about it:
[ T ]Neither candidate would commit himself on the issue of tax reform.

commitverb (PUT)

[ T ]us/kəˈmɪt/-tt-
to actively put information in your memory or write it down:
These rules must be committed to memory.
I wouldn't want to commit these comments to paper.

commitverb (CRIME)

[ T ]us/kəˈmɪt/-tt-
to do something illegal or considered wrong:
He committed a crime in providing the information to a reporter.

commitverb (SEND FOR TREATMENT)

[ T ]fmlus/kəˈmɪt/-tt-
to cause someone to stay in a mental hospital or treatment center:
He was once committed to a state mental hospital.

commit | Business English

commit
verb
uk /kəˈmɪt/us-tt-
[ I or T ]
to promise to do something or to promise that something will happen:
commit to sthThe CEO declined to commit to a time frame for the decision.
commit to doing sthFamilies who sign up to the service have to commit to buying their groceries from one internet source for a year.
commit yourself (to sth)Carefully check out arrangements before committing yourself.
[ T ]
to decide or promise to use something for a particular purpose:
commit sth (to sth)Check who you are dealing with and the terms and conditions on the account before committing cash.
commit sth to do sthHe has committed $5 million of his own money to get the project going.
[ T ]
to do something illegal or that is considered wrong:
commit a crime/felony/offence
She is charged with conspiracy to commit fraud.

Examples of commit

commit
If one is committed to a religious outlook, the first option is ruled out.
When an initial analysis is highly plausible, readers commit strongly to it and reanalysis is made more difficult.
If we are committed to realizing designs as physical artifacts, then ultimately we are committed to their intentionality.
It seemed possible that restricting the study to children who never committed case errors led to an unrepresentative sample of children.
To concede that statements are sometimes true, in this sense, therefore, does not commit one to an ontological theory about the entities that they describe.
Scientists of the late eighteenth century were committed to raising the level of these studies through experimentation and, above all, measurement.
Or perhaps committing a few contrapuntal errors was but a small price to pay for enabling some fine singers to perform these roles.
But his hopes of committing the distinguished actor to a prolonged stay at what, after all, was a small provincial theatre were doomed to failure.
Furthermore, to qualify for international aid, governments of developing countries must often commit themselves to liberalised economies, and remove government intervention in the market.
And, thirdly, the money and materials committed to dreadnoughts reduced the resources available for armies.
The coordination of all threads belonging to the same transaction is then crucial, because they must all commit or abort in case the transaction fails.
Patients were asked to commit themselves to at least 12 sessions because we believed that was the minimum required for a beneficial effect.
These committed essays, of course, bear witness to important issues, even if they do not always illuminate them.
The net result for those scholars not already committed to one or the other view seems to be stalemate.
In the present study we focused on the number of errors committed at 4 and 12 s delays.
See all examples of commit
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.