consign somebody/something to something phrasal verb formal (
see also consign)
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. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲