committing

verb | com·mit

1. a : to put into another's charge or trust : entrust, consign committed her children to her sister's care

   b : to place in a prison or mental hospital especially by judicial order was found to be gravely disabled and was involuntarily committed to the Central Louisiana State Hospital —In the Matter of K.G., 531 So. 2d 575 (1988) — compare institutionalize, interdict

   c : to send (as a legislative bill) to a committee for consideration and report commit the crime bill to the joint committee

2. : to carry into action deliberately : perpetrate to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas —U.S. Constitution art. I

3. : obligate, bind

   : to obligate or bind oneself would not commit to the irrevocable order