Commit
Commit verb - To put in or as if in prison.
Usage example: committed the rapist to prison
Jail
Jail verb - To put in or as if in prison.
Usage example: threatened to jail the punks if they so much as jaywalked
Both words in one sentence
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Two Brains will chew through walls to break out of jail and commit crimes, and Lady Redundant Woman ate paper in "I Think I'm A Clone Now" in order to clone WordGirl and attempt to clone Captain Huggyface.
Source: Western Animation / WordGirl -
About the only one really suffering for her actions is Kharisma, except she's in jail for a murder she didn't commit, but was trying to commit... and with the intended victim's blessing, at that.
Source: Webcomic / Something*Positive -
Johnny apparently gets to keep Chris-R's gun after he gets carted off to jail, eventually using it to commit suicide.
Source: Film / The Room
Cite this Source
Jail and Commit. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/commit/jail
Commit & Jail. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/commit/jail>.
Jail or Commit. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/commit/jail.
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