commit

Verb

• engage in or perform
  • practice safe sex
    
  • commit a random act of kindness
    

• make an investment
  • Put money into bonds
    

• confer a trust upon
  • The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret
    
  • I commit my soul to God
    

• cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
  • After the second episode, she had to be committed
    
  • he was committed to prison
    

• give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
  • She committed herself to the work of God
    
  • give one's talents to a good cause
    
  • consecrate your life to the church
    

• perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
  • perpetrate a crime
    
  • pull a bank robbery
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  practice , invest , put , place , entrust , intrust , trust , confide , institutionalize , institutionalise , send , charge , give , dedicate , consecrate , devote , perpetrate , pull
• Antonyms: 
  divest , disinvest