consign
[verb]
Synonyms: commit, commend, confide, entrust, hand over, relegate, turn over, send, address, dispatch, forward, remit, route, ship, transmit

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Related Words: resign, surrender, yield

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con‧sign /kənˈsaɪn/ verb
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: French; Origin: consigner, from Latin consignare, from com- ( ⇒ COM-) + signum 'mark, seal']
[transitive] formal to send something somewhere, especially in order to sell it
consign somebody/something to something phrasal verb formal

1. to make someone or something be in a particular situation, especially a bad one:
It was a decision which consigned him to political obscurity.
consign somebody/something to the dustbin/scrapheap/rubbish heap etc British English:
Many older people feel they have been consigned to the medical scrapheap.

2. to put something somewhere, especially in order to get rid of it:
The shoes looked so tatty that I consigned them to the back of the cupboard.

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