Thanks for your help. (I’m actually rather surprised in an unhappy way to find that usage acceptable, it seems so ugly and unnatural, and most people seem to feel that ‘to commit’ must collocate with ‘suicide’. See link below.)
1-- Personally, I do not care for it much either.
2-- One cannot hold back language with any kind of elitist attitude
3-- That site does not seem particularly professional.
Ah, OK. Thanks, but could you tell me why? I am writing a paragraph and I am going to use ‘commit’ in my next sentence. As much as possible, I don’t want to repeat the word ‘commit’. What are the other words that I can use? Thanks again.
That is the collocation: ‘to commit suicide’. If you don’t wish to use ‘commit’ so often, then don’t use ‘suicide’ so often. It is just like ‘play baseball’ - anything else (‘do baseball’, ‘practice baseball’) is not natural English.