When you say the word “committed,” several different things come to mind.

     Webster’s Dictionary provides the following insight into the word “committed:”

1. gave in trust or charge; consigned.
2. consigned for preservation: committed ideas to writing; to committed a poem to memory.
3. pledged (oneself) to a position on an issue or question; expressed (one’s intention, feeling, etc.): Asked if he was a candidate, he refused to be committed.
4. bound or obligated, as by pledge or assurance; pledged: committed oneself to a promise; committed to a course of action.
5. entrusted, esp. for safekeeping; commended: committed her soul to God.
6. did; performed; perpetrated: committed murder; committed an error.
7. consigned to custody: committed a delinquent to a reformatory.
8. placed in a mental institution or hospital by or as if by legal authority: He was committed on the certificate of two psychiatrists.
9. delivered for treatment, disposal, etc.; relegated: committed a manuscript to the flames.
10. sent into a battle: The commander has committed all his troops to the front lines.
11. Parliamentary Procedure. refered (a bill or the like) to a committee for consideration.
12. pledged or engaged oneself: an athlete who has committed to the highest standards.

     Now look at this picture:

     Which one(s) apply?