OVERCOMMITTING Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

overcommitting

verb

present participle of overcommit

as in vowing

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Dissimilar Words

reneging

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Verb

When the boss returns to the office vowing to send them all to jail, he is stunned to see the women have introduced job-sharing, flexible hours, and on-site child care.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz remained defiant on Sunday, vowing to press ahead with potentially painful reforms to Europe's biggest economy, after suffering a bruising electoral setback in two state elections.

— CBS News, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of vowing

Verb

The robotaxi industry has spent the better part of a decade promising that autonomous vehicles would remake urban transportation.

— Interesting Engineering, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
OpenAI unveiled a personal AI agent at its annual developer conference on Tuesday, joining a growing number of companies promising to make consumers' lives easier with virtual assistants.

— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of promising

Verb

As Fox reported in its broadcast, the last time the Bills won a game despite committing five turnovers was in 1997 against Indianapolis.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
The airport-massager sketch had Brunson in a supporting role to Mikey Day, whose commendable job committing to the bit couldn’t keep it from being one-note.

— Rima Parikh, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of committing

Verb

Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher went on one of his bad-boy tirades during a performance at the 1996 show by swearing, wandering the stage and making lewd gestures during his brother Noel’s guitar solo.

— Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2026
After founding Jala in Florida five years ago, swearing it would not be a cookie-cutter Indian restaurant, Maax has decided to open a location in the KC metro.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of swearing

Verb

How To Say No Without Damaging Relationships Leaders who never build the time management skill of triage put their most important priorities at risk, mortgaging that work in more ways than one.

— Cynthia Pong, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
However, the Clippers are valuing youth, depth and future draft assets after mortgaging so much of that for the Leonard-George pairing.

— Zach Harper, New York Times, 30 June 2026

Definition of mortgaging

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