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consign
[ kuhn-sahyn ]
verb (used with object)
- to hand over or deliver formally or officially; commit (often followed by to ).
- to transfer to another's custody or charge; entrust.
Synonyms: confide
- to set apart for or devote to (a special purpose or use):
to consign two afternoons a week to the club.
- to banish or set apart in one's mind; relegate:
to consign unpleasant thoughts to oblivion.
- Commerce.
- to ship, as by common carrier, especially for sale or custody.
- to address for such shipment.
- Obsolete. to confirm or ratify, as with a seal or other token.
verb (used without object)
- to agree or assent.
- Obsolete. to yield or submit.
consign
/ kənˈsaɪn /
verb
- to hand over or give into the care or charge of another; entrust
- to commit irrevocably
he consigned the papers to the flames
- to commit for admittance
to consign someone to jail
- to address or deliver (goods) for sale, disposal, etc
it was consigned to his London address
- obsolete.intr to assent; agree
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Derived Forms
- conˈsignable, adjective
- ˌconsignˈation, noun
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Other Words From
- con·signa·ble adjective
- con·sig·na·tion [kon-sig-, ney, -sh, uh, n], noun
- precon·sign verb (used with object)
- recon·sign verb (used with object)
- uncon·signa·ble adjective
- uncon·signed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of consign1
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Example Sentences
With a voice thick with tears, Collins told Fajuri he had stopped performing in 2000 and it was time to consign the piece.
That may be because it is the only state in the union which allows a simple 7-5 verdict by a jury to consign someone to death.
Her fourth born child, Brian, was diagnosed with nonverbal autism, but she refused to consign him to an institution.
Ford may have been seeking a place in heaven, the Journal warned, but this action would more likely consign him to hell.
And why would she consign herself to lame-duck status, even if two years from now that might be her intention?
A gentleman does not call his opponents vipers and consign them to hell, but Jahveh is not under any such obligations.
You will not consign him to the spot to which the attorney-general invites you to surrender him.
This is the fate to which emancipation would consign the Negro.
In this way does a lazy world consign discussion to silence with the cynical closure.
The sudden change from the lowest depths of woe to a state of ecstacy, would consign him to the tenement you have just quitted.
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