Synonyms and Antonyms of committing
1
to carry through (as a process) to completion
- accused of committing a felony
accomplishing, achieving, bringing off, carrying off, carrying out, compassing, doing, executing, following through (with), fulfilling, making, negotiating, performing, perpetrating, prosecuting, pulling off, putting through
bringing about, effecting, effectuating, implementing
acing, nailing
engaging (in), practicing (also practising)
working (at)
reduplicating, reenacting, repeating
actualizing, attaining, realizing
completing, ending, finishing, winding 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
commending, confiding, consigning, delegating, delivering, entrusting (also intrusting), giving, giving over, handing, handing over, leaving, passing, recommending, reposing, transferring, transmitting, trusting, turning over, vesting
conferring, granting
assigning, dealing (out), dispensing, dispersing, distributing, dividing
handing in, releasing, relinquishing, submitting, surrendering, turning in, yielding
bequeathing, handing down, handing on, willing
advancing, lending, loaning
furnishing, supplying
recommitting, redelivering, retransferring, retransmitting
4
to put in or as if in prison
- committed the rapist to prison
constraining, limiting, restraining, restricting, shutting
barring, gating
apprehending, arresting, busting [slang], capturing, catching, detaining, nabbing, picking up, pinching, seizing
impressing, shanghaiing
holding, impounding, keeping
binding, enchaining, fettering, handcuffing, manacling, shackling, trammeling (or trammelling)
