Definition

1. 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  • The parole was revoked after he recommitted a violent act.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

1. send back to a committee
   • The bill was recommitted three times in the House
2. commit again
   • It was recommitted into her custody
3. commit once again, as of a crime