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adjective

committed adj.

Bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude. Opposite of uncommitted. Note: (Narrower terms: bound up, involved, wrapped up; dedicated, devoted; pledged, sworn)

Associated in an exclusive sexual relationship; also called attached. Opposite of unattached. Note: (Narrower terms: affianced, bespoken, betrothed, engaged, pledged, promised(predicate); married) (Also See: loving.)

Synonyms: attached.

Consigned involuntarily to custody, as in a prison or mental institution.

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Etymology of 'Committed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Committed" Quotes from Famous Books

... on the fine carving of the fountain, and to think of their going on here year after year for the past twenty years, while that hideous revolution had devastated the whole country, while men had murdered each other, slaughtered women and children and committed every crime and every infamy which lust of hate and revenge can engender in the hearts of men. The old trees and the stone fountain had remained peaceful and still the while, unscathed and undefiled, grand, dignified and majestic, ...

— The Bronze Eagle - A Story of the Hundred Days • Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

... brown hat marked with a grease spot. One would have judged him a skilled mechanic. When he began to speak, his blunt but civil phrases were in keeping with this impression. He had not the tone of an educated man, yet committed no vulgar errors. ...

— The Paying Guest • George Gissing

... grimly. "And I can't help feeling that you would give infinitely more satisfaction here if you had first been trained a bit in one of your father's many offices. I don't suppose you have the least idea, sir, of what a grave offense you have committed to-day?" ...

— Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants - or, Handling Their First Real Commands • H. Irving Hancock

... of 1856 was never formally dissolved. The reformation it had accomplished rendered it inactive. Some of the worst criminals in California had been officials. A thousand homicides had been committed in the city between 1849 and 1856, and there were but seven executions ...

— In the Footprints of the Padres • Charles Warren Stoddard

... the heroes, and not at them. The humour which steeps the stories of Falstaff and Uncle Toby is a cosmic and philosophic humour, a geniality which goes down to the depths. It is not superficial reading, it is not even, strictly speaking, light reading. Our sympathies are as much committed to the characters as if they were the predestined victims in a Greek tragedy. The modern writer of comedies may be said to boast of the brittleness of his characters. He seems always on the eve of knocking his puppets to pieces. When John Oliver Hobbes wrote for the ...

— Varied Types • G. K. Chesterton

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