Synonyms and Antonyms of commit
1
to carry through (as a process) to completion
- accused of committing a felony
accomplish, achieve, bring off, carry off, carry out, compass, do, execute, follow through (with), fulfill (or fulfil), make, negotiate, perform, perpetrate, prosecute, pull off, put through
bring about, effect, effectuate, implement
ace, nail
engage (in), practice (also practise)
work (at)
reduplicate, reenact, repeat
actualize, attain, realize
complete, end, finish, wind up
2
to obligate by prior agreement
- we were committed to finishing the project
3
to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another
- commit only some power to each official
commend, confide, consign, delegate, deliver, entrust (also intrust), give, give over, hand, hand over, leave, pass, recommend, repose, transfer, transmit, trust, turn over, vest
confer, grant
assign, deal (out), dispense, disperse, distribute, divide
hand in, release, relinquish, submit, surrender, turn in, yield
bequeath, hand down, hand on, will
advance, lend, loan
furnish, supply
recommit, redeliver, retransfer, retransmit
4
to put in or as if in prison
- committed the rapist to prison
constrain, limit, restrain, restrict, shut
bar, gate
apprehend, arrest, bust [slang], capture, catch, detain, nab, pick up, pinch, seize
impress, shanghai
hold, impound, keep
bind, enchain, fetter, handcuff, manacle
