consign
verb
transitive verb
Jane Austenintransitive verb
Synonyms
- dispatch
- pack (off)
- send
- ship
- shoot
- transfer
- transmit
- transport
Example Sentences
Charles Mcnulty, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022 Instead, his tawdry decline now threatens to consign the Borbóns to the trash heap of history—along with the Romanovs, the Habsburgs, and other defunct dynasties. Joshua Hammer, Town & Country, 21 Aug. 2022 Witold Pilecki was never able to consign the past to the past in the same way. Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022 In a world that seeks to consign to the shadows those who don’t conform, Osunde’s vagabonds act as an illuminating force for one another. The New Yorker, 9 May 2022 The quickly evolving situation is sparking yet another controversy over whether the desperation to consign the virus to history is being driven by science or politics. Stephen Collinson, CNN, 8 Feb. 2022 Never are we allowed to forget that the founders were self-interested fathers, heedless of women as thinking citizens and ready to consign people of color to history’s ashbin. Bob Verini, Variety, 6 June 2022 Save your fingers by saving the scrap for broth or consign it to the compost. Washington Post, 2 May 2022 As played by the generally insufferable Jared Leto, who again emerges as eminently slappable, Michael Morbius is a crippled super-scientist lamed by a DNA defect that will consign him to an early grave. Kyle Smith, National Review, 1 Apr. 2022 See More Word History
Middle French consigner, from Latin consignare, from com- + signum sign, mark, seal — more at sign
1528, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
Kids Definition
consign
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Legal Definition
consign
transitive verb
consign
verb
Synonyms & Similar Words
- send
- transport
- ship
- transmit
- transfer
- dispatch
- deliver
- donate
- convey
- render
- address
- shoot
- present
- return
- give
- contribute
- pass
- pack (off)
- import
- bestow
- forward
- advance
- launch
- drop
- export
- hand over
- resend
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- accept
- receive
- acquire
- obtain
- get
- draw
- secure
- earn
- procure
- gain
- garner
Synonyms & Similar Words
- leave
- hand
- transfer
- give
- relinquish
- deliver
- entrust
- delegate
- commit
- pass
- commend
- recommend
- transmit
- confide
- trust
- repose
- intrust
- bequeath
- submit
- assign
- loan
- grant
- lend
- furnish
- will
- hand over
- distribute
- dispense
- turn over
- confer
- divide
- vest
- give over
- supply
- surrender
- hand in
- turn in
- disperse
- yield
- deal (out)
- hand on
- release
- advance
- hand down
- recommit
- redeliver
- retransfer
- retransmit
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- hold
- retain
- keep
- withhold
- accept
- possess
- receive
- own
- reserve
- take
- detain
- occupy
- hold back
- take in
- take over
Synonym Chooser
Some common synonyms of consign are commit, confide, entrust, and relegate. While all these words mean "to assign to a person or place for a definite purpose," consign suggests removing from one's control with formality or finality.
While the synonyms commit and consign are close in meaning, commit may express the general idea of delivering into another's charge or the special sense of transferring to a superior power or to a special place of custody.
While in some cases nearly identical to consign, confide implies entrusting with great assurance or reliance.
The words entrust and consign are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, entrust implies committing with trust and confidence.
The synonyms relegate and consign are sometimes interchangeable, but relegate implies a consigning to a particular class or sphere often with a suggestion of getting rid of.