## Meanings
1. To do something wrong or illegal, such as a crime.
2. To promise to give your time, effort, or loyalty to something.
3. To give something to someone to keep or look after; to entrust.
4. To send someone to a hospital or institution, especially for mental illness.

## Examples
- He was sent to prison for committing a serious crime.
- I committed myself to the charity with a large donation of time and money.
- Commit these numbers to memory.
- The court ordered that he be committed to a psychiatric hospital.

## Derived Forms
- autocommit
- commitment
- committable
- committed
- committer
- committible
- decommit
- miscommit
- noncommitting
- overcommit
- precommit
- recommit

## Related Forms
- commission
- committal
- committee
- mission
- noncommittal
- push
- stage

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: committen
- Root: committō

## Etymology
Inherited from Middle English committen, itself borrowed from Latin committō (“to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc.”), from com- (“together”) + mittō (“to send”). See mission.

## AI Etymology
commit is a verb. It was inherited from Middle English committen, itself borrowed from Latin committō (“to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc.”), from com- (“together”) + mittō (“to send”). See mission. Historical forms in the chain include committen (Middle English) and committō (Latin). Current senses include to do something wrong or illegal, such as a crime, to promise to give your time, effort, or loyalty to something, and to give something to someone to keep or look after; to entrust. Derived forms include autocommit, commitment, committable, committed, and committer. Related words include commission, committal, committee, and mission.

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- Health & Medicine
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