Perpetrate
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit.
Commit
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.To join a contest; to match; -- followed by with.To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; for example to commit oneself to a certain action, to commit oneself to doing something. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)To confound., To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.
Example sentence: One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life,' which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.