Meaning & use
consign
To formally hand something over to someone's care, or to assign something to a particular fate or place.
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The museum decided to consign the damaged painting to permanent storage.
She consigned her old novels to a secondhand bookshop instead of throwing them away.
A note on using this word
Consign often carries a sense of finality, as in 'consign to oblivion,' and names the business of selling goods on commission, as in 'consignment shop.'
Words with a similar meaning
hand overrelegateentrust
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