commit
com-mit · verb
Definitions
verb
- 1.
To carry out or perpetrate (a mistake, crime, or immoral act).
- 2.
To pledge or bind oneself to a course of action or to another person.
- 3.
To transfer something to a particular state or place for preservation or disposal.
- 4.
To send someone officially to prison or a psychiatric hospital.
- 5.
(computing) To save changes to a version control repository.
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Etymology
From Latin committere ("to bring together, join, entrust, commit"), from com- ("together") + mittere ("to send, release").