commit : Idioms & Phrases


Attempt to commit a crime

  • (Law), such an intentional preparatory act as will apparently result, if not extrinsically hindered, in a crime which it was designed to effect.
Webster 1913

commit suicide

  • verb kill oneself
    • the terminally ill patient committed suicide
WordNet

Fully committed

  • (Law), committed to prison for trial, in distinction from being detained for examination.
Webster 1913

To commit a bill

  • (Legislation), to refer or intrust it to a committee or others, to be considered and reported.
Webster 1913

To commit to memory, ∨ To commit

  • to learn by heart; to memorize.
Webster 1913