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🎯 To dedicate again 🔄 To send back 🚨 To repeat offense
to recommit

to recommit

4 4.3
To decide again to give time to a goal or plan
  • verb
  • /ˌriːkəˈmɪt/
translation icon : recomprometerse
  • We must recommit ourselves every day to making sure that never happens.

It's really tough to recommit yourself once you start going down that slope, you know.

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Examples

  • Recommit to my health and fitness; I might have to create a 30-day challenge for myself too!

    Blog text (8)

  • It's really tough to recommit yourself once you start going down that slope, you know.

    Theo Von

  • Who wants to recommit themselves to the Lord?

    Saved! (2004)

  • Can we recommit to the democratic ideal of an excellent public school for every child?

    Blog text (2)

  • We must recommit ourselves to the aesthetic and artistic aspect of music teacher education.

    Academic text (2014)

  • "The United States needs to recommit to spaceflight, needs to recommit to a future of exploration where we have led the way," he said.

    Blog text (26)

  • We must ensure accountability for those violating that UN Charter, and this council must recommit to the values it sets out.

  • During National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we recommit to ensuring our information and infrastructure remain secure, reliable, and resilient.

    Blog text (12)

  • Tonight, over 300 years since the founding of this great city, we recommit ourselves to the ancient truth that it is not knowledge, but action and enterprise which are the engine and objective in life.

    Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

  • I decided to recommit to my fitness goals after realizing I had been neglecting them.

Synonyms

to rededicate
vsto recommit
7 5.9

To start giving time and effort to something again with new commitment

emphasizes choosing again to devote oneself rather than just renewing devotion
to reapply
vsto recommit
1 3.6

Give your attention or effort to something again after a break

is about choosing to renew deep devotion rather than just returning effort

Antonyms

to abandon
401 3.8

Stop supporting an idea or plan

to renounce
  • Formal
69 6.3

To give up a right, belief, job, or position officially

How Committed

to devote
465 3.7
to recommit
4 4.3
to renew
175 2.8
to reaffirm
55 4.4

Surface Forms

recommit infinitive
recommitted past
recommitted past participle
recommitting present participle
recommits third person singular

Morphology

recommit = commit (transparent) = re + commit

The meaning is a straightforward repetition of the relevant sense of 'commit', with 're-' adding the meaning 'again'.

Etymology

The word recommit is made of the prefix re- meaning 'again' and commit meaning 'to give yourself to something', and it is like the word commitment. So to recommit to a goal or promise is to 'give yourself again' to that plan or duty.