Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to commit
Participle: committed
Gerund: committing
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | commit |
| you | commit |
| he;she;it | commits |
| we | commit |
| you | commit |
| they | commit |
Perfect
| I | have committed |
| you | have committed |
| he;she;it | has committed |
| we | have committed |
| you | have committed |
| they | have committed |
Past
| I | committed |
| you | committed |
| he;she;it | committed |
| we | committed |
| you | committed |
| they | committed |
Pluperfect
| I | had committed |
| you | had committed |
| he;she;it | had committed |
| we | had committed |
| you | had committed |
| they | had committed |
Future
| I | will commit |
| you | will commit |
| he;she;it | will commit |
| we | will commit |
| you | will commit |
| they | will commit |
Future Perfect
| I | will have committed |
| you | will have committed |
| he;she;it | will have committed |
| we | will have committed |
| you | will have committed |
| they | will have committed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | commit |
| you | commit |
| he;she;it | commit |
| we | commit |
| you | commit |
| they | commit |
Perfect
| I | have committed |
| you | have committed |
| he;she;it | have committed |
| we | have committed |
| you | have committed |
| they | have committed |
Imperfect
| I | committed |
| you | committed |
| he;she;it | committed |
| we | committed |
| you | committed |
| they | committed |
Pluperfect
| I | had committed |
| you | had committed |
| he;she;it | had committed |
| we | had committed |
| you | had committed |
| they | had committed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would commit |
| you | would commit |
| he;she;it | would commit |
| we | would commit |
| you | would commit |
| they | would commit |
Perfect
| I | would have committed |
| you | would have committed |
| he;she;it | would have committed |
| we | would have committed |
| you | would have committed |
| they | would have committed |
Imperative
| you | commit |
| we | Let's commit |
| you | commit |
Verbs conjugated like 'commit'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'commit'
comfit,
commix,
coadmit,
coedit,
coit,
colimit,
combat,
comix,
comma,
comment,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- entrust
- commend, promise, confide, delegate, consign, allocate, appoint
- perpetrate
- do, complete, perform, execute, effect, wreak, produce
- institutionalize
- imprison, confine
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1390, from L.
committere "to bring together," from
com- "together" +
mittere "to put, send" (see mission). Evolution into modern range of meanings is not entirely clear. Sense of "perpetrating" was ancient in L. Intransitive use (in place of
commit oneself) first recorded 1982, probably influenced by existentialism use (1948) of
commitment to translate Sartre's
engagement "to emotionally and morally engage."
2. 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. See: Middle English '
committen', Middle English '
committen', Latin '
committō'.
Verbs referencing "commit"
Finnish with old forms
kommitoida, German, old spelling
committen.
Sample Sentences
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There are two establishments for boys in this same neighbourhood. One is called the Boylston school, and is an asylum for neglected and indigent boys who have committed no crime, but who in the ordinary course of things would very soon be purged of that distinction if they were not taken from the hungry streets and sent here. The other is a House of Reformation [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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In the prisoner 's cell, waiting to be examined by the magistrate on a charge of theft, was a boy. This lad, instead of being committed to a common jail, would be sent to the asylum at South Boston, and there taught a trade; and in the course of time he would be bound apprentice to some respectable master. Thus, his detection in [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] in naked ugliness and horror. In the dining-room, a bare, dull, dreary place, with nothing for the eye to rest on but the empty walls, a woman was locked up alone. She was bent, they told me, on committing suicide. If anything could have strengthened her in her resolution, it would certainly have been the insupportable monotony of such an existence.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Miss Ophelia busied herself very earnestly on Sundays, teaching Topsy the catechism. Topsy had an uncommon verbal memory, and committed with a fluency that greatly encouraged her instructress.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] to avert from himself at least a portion of the evils of his condition. He saw enough of abuse and misery to make him sick and weary; but he determined to toil on, with religious patience, committing himself to Him that judgeth righteously, not without hope that some way of escape might yet be opened to him.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)