Committing Synonyms and Antonyms

Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. charging
  2. devoting
  3. pledging
  4. consecrating
  5. obligating
  6. sending
  7. dedicating
  8. institutionalizing
  9. giving
  10. binding
Confer a trust upon
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. relegating
  2. entrusting
  3. trusting
  4. placing
  5. confiding
  6. consigning
  7. giving
  8. investing
  9. intrusting
  10. binding
  11. confining
  12. institutionalizing
  13. referring
  14. conveying
  15. pursuing
  16. commissioning
  17. engaging
  18. practicing
  19. allotting
  20. authorizing
  21. sending
  22. perpetrating
  23. dispatching
  24. employing
  25. delegating
  26. empowering
  27. constraining
  28. obligating
  29. putting
  30. obliging
  31. doing
  32. pledging
  33. assigning
  34. apportioning
  35. allocating
  36. charging
  37. commanding
  38. bequeathing
  39. commending
To place officially in confinement
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. institutionalizing
  2. consigning
Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. perpetrating
  2. doing
  3. pulling
  4. acting
  5. practicing
Antonyms:
  1. keeping
  2. loafing
  3. resting
  4. idling
  5. ending
  6. waiting
  7. ceasing
  8. stopping
  9. desisting

Words Related to Committing

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Committing Sentence Examples

  • Livia was suspected of committing various crimes to secure the throne for Tiberius, whereas Augustus naturally favoured the claims of his blood-relatives.

  • Thus, in 1492 the Turks made incursions into Carinthia as far as Laibach, and into Styria as far as Cilli, committing unspeakable atrocities; in 1493 they overran both Styria and Croatia.

  • In the state reformatory at Elmira (which, like that at Napanoch, is for men between sixteen and thirty years of age who have been convicted of a state prison offence for the first time only), the plan of committing adult felons on an indeterminate sentence to be determined by their behaviour was first tested in America in 1877, and it has proved so satisfactory that it has been in part adopted for the state prisons.

  • The severity with which Henry treated the last rebels was regarded as a blot upon his fame; but the only case of merely vindictive punishment was that of the poet Luke de la Barre, who was sentenced to lose his eyes for a lampoon upon the king, and only escaped the sentence by committing suicide.

  • The allies were thus afforded an opportunity of committing the very blunder which Napoleon longed for, namely to attempt a risky forward concentration.

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