Synonyms for consign
kənˈsaɪncon·sign

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1. consign

   Commit, in the sense here considered, is to give in charge, put into care or keeping; to confide or entrust is to commit especially to one's fidelity, confide being used chiefly of mental or spiritual, entrust also of material things; we assign a duty, confide a secret, entrust a treasure; we commit thoughts to writing; commit a paper to the flames, a body to the earth; a prisoner is committed to jail. Consign is a formal word in mercantile use; as, to consign goods to an agent. Religiously, we consign the body to the grave, commit the soul to God. Compare DO.

   Synonyms:
   assign, commit, confide, entrust, relegate, trust

   Preposition:
   Commit to a friend for safe-keeping; in law, commit to prison; for trial; without bail; in default of bail; on suspicion.

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1. consignverb

   commit forever; commit irrevocably

   Synonyms:
   charge

2. consign, chargeverb

   give over to another for care or safekeeping

   "consign your baggage"

   Synonyms:
   saddle, institutionalize, buck, shoot down, commove, turn on, shoot, appoint, institutionalise, agitate, rouse, accuse, point, burden, file, bill, tear, level, charge, load, bear down, commit, blame, charge up, excite, lodge, send

3. consignverb

   send to an address

   Synonyms:
   charge

Matched Categories

1. • Abandon
   • Deliver
   • Entrust

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1. consignverb

   Synonyms:
   transfer, alienate, abalienate, demise, devolve, convey, deliver over, make over, hand over

2. consignverb

   Synonyms:
   intrust, commit, give in trust

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1. List of paraphrases for "consign":

   relegate

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How to use consign in a sentence?

1. Ilya Somin:

   Whatever objection you have to this, whether it's a left-wing objection or right-wing objection or something else, you have to ask: not only is there some sort of a problem, but is it a great enough problem that we should be willing to consign thousands of people to death every year, and many more thousands to kidney dialysis?

2. Alok Sharma:

   This has effectively ended public finance for overseas coal projects, to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, all countries need to raise their ambition and act urgently to consign coal to history.

3. Brigid Brophy:

   I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

4. Michael Hammond:

   GOA will continue to fight the issue in the court system, as the case now returns to the lower courts. We remain convinced that the courts will consign this unlawful, unconstitutional ban to the trash bin of history, where it belongs.