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adjective

committed adj.

Bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude. Opposite of uncommitted. Note: (Narrower terms: bound up, involved, wrapped up; dedicated, devoted; pledged, sworn)

Associated in an exclusive sexual relationship; also called attached. Opposite of unattached. Note: (Narrower terms: affianced, bespoken, betrothed, engaged, pledged, promised(predicate); married) (Also See: loving.)

Synonyms: attached.

Consigned involuntarily to custody, as in a prison or mental institution.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... matters short, Gerard did so much in a few days that he obtained leave of absence from his master—which was not very difficult, not that he had committed any fault, but owing to his love affair with Katherine, with which her friends were not best pleased, seeing that Gerard was not of such a good family or so rich as she was, and could ...

— One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories - Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles • Various

... of the committee, I believe he did all that any man could have done. The best of us are liable to commit errors, which become apparent by subsequent developments; but I do not know of a single error, even, committed by Mr. Judd, since he and I have ...

— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln

... end, or scarce suspected its aim; it was pleasant to her at the time, and she looked not to the future, but fed it with visionary schemes, and soothed it with voluntary fancies. Now she knew all was over, she felt the folly she had committed, but though sensibly and candidly angry at her own error, its conviction offered nothing but sorrow to ...

— Cecilia vol. 3 - Memoirs of an Heiress • Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d'Arblay)

... state that inquiries had been instituted respecting the vexations and spoliations committed on the commerce of the United States, the result of which, ...

— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing

... persecutor and had given themselves up to the authorities, they were found worthy of death. But the Shogun was in some anxiety as to what might justly be done. He sent privily to a famous abbot saying that it was at all times the duty of the Shogun to condemn to death men who had committed murder. Yet it was the privilege of a priest to ask for mercy, and in the matter of the lives of the Ronin the Shogun would not be unwilling to listen to a plea for mercy. The abbot answered that he sympathised deeply with the Ronin, ...

— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott

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