Commit and Wind up

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

Usage example: accused of committing a felony

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Wind up and commit are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wind up" instead a verb "Commit".

Wind up verb - To bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point.

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Commit and wind up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Commit" instead a verb "Wind up".

Darker and Edgier: Unlike canon, innocent students can wind up being killed for crimes they didn't commit without that immediately ending the whole game.

Source: Roleplay / Doubt Academy
Their fate is usually to be casually discarded to wind up another victim, or to go to jail for the crimes they commit to aid the Monster, often screaming declarations of love all the way.

Source: Monster Fangirl
Cool and Unusual Punishment: The main character and his friends wind up pulling off many of these, but the best ones eventually got their former school principal to commit assault and battery.

Source: Literature / The Saga of Tuck

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