Address and Commit

Address

Address verb - To occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attention.

Usage example: please address yourself to what I'm saying and not to the television

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Commit and address are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Commit" instead a verb "Address".

Commit verb - To carry through (as a process) to completion.

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Address and commit are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Address" instead a verb "Commit".

In "To Live and Die in Dixie" the Griffins are relocated to a hick town when Chris sees a crook commit a robbery and Peter gives the crook their address.

Source: Internal Retcon
One example being "Down The Left Hand Path": He convinces a group of teenagers to commit suicide, then they haunt the wrong address (because they're "stupid dead motherfuckers").

Source: Music / Cage
While those tropes acknowledge that women commit acts of domestic violence and acts of rape but easily forgive or dismiss them based on their gender, examples of this trope address the seriousness of abuse while implying that only men can commit these acts of violence.

Source: All Abusers Are Male

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Commit and Address. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/address/commit

Address & Commit. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/address/commit>.

Commit or Address. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/address/commit.

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