recommit
/'ri:kə'mit/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To send back to a committee: To return a proposal, bill, or matter to a committee for further consideration, review, or amendment.
- To commit again: To pledge, dedicate, or entrust someone or something once more to a particular course of action, institution, or state.
- To commit once again, as of a crime: To perpetrate or carry out an illegal or wrongful act again.
Usage and Examples
Verb (To send back to a committee):
- The House voted to recommit the bill for additional hearings.
- The motion to recommit the resolution to the finance committee passed narrowly.
Verb (To commit again):
- After his release, he decided to recommit himself to his studies.
- The judge had to recommit the patient to the psychiatric facility.
Verb (To commit a crime again):
- The offender was arrested for recommitting the same fraud.
- The parole was revoked after he recommitted a violent act.
Advanced Usage
"To recommit to memory": To make a conscious effort to learn or memorize something again.
- I had to recommit the formulas to memory before the final exam.
"To be recommitted to a cause": To renew one's dedication or pledge to a principle or movement.
- The activists recommitted themselves to the fight for equality.
Variants and Related Words
Recommitment (noun): The act of recommitting.
- The ceremony marked his recommitment to the organization's values.
Recommittal (noun): The action of sending something back to a committee or committing someone again.
- The recommittal of the bill delayed the final vote.
Synonyms
- Return (to a committee)
- Re-dedicate (to commit again)
- Re-perpetrate (to commit a crime again)
Phrasal Verbs
- Recommit to: To pledge or dedicate oneself anew to something.
- She recommitted to her fitness goals after the holiday season.
Related Idioms
- "To turn over a new leaf and recommit": To start anew with a fresh dedication.
- After the setback, he turned over a new leaf and recommitted to his project.
Verb
- send back to a committee
- The bill was recommitted three times in the House
- commit again
- It was recommitted into her custody
- commit once again, as of a crime