Committal: alternatives and connections

Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

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To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

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The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.

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The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

The act of consigning; consignation.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

The act of perpetrating; a doing; -- commonly used of doing something wrong, as a crime.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.