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Synonyms for consign

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for consign

to put in the charge of another for care, use, or performance

to place officially in confinement

to cause (something) to be conveyed to a destination

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Synonyms for consign

commit forever

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give over to another for care or safekeeping

send to an address

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So that, Senor Ambrosia while you consign your friend's body to the earth, you should not consign his writings to oblivion, for if he gave the order in bitterness of heart, it is not right that you should irrationally obey it.
The discarded clothing of the Prince he wrapped about a huge stone torn from the disintegrating masonry of the river wall, and consigned the bundle to the voiceless river.
But Michael was not received by Harris Collins, who, at the moment, sat in his private office, Harry Del Mar's last telegram on his desk, writing a memorandum to his secretary to query the railroad and the express companies for the whereabouts of a dog, crated and shipped by one, Harry Del Mar, from Seattle and consigned to Cedarwild.
The Major rose and took the book out of the Italian cabinet, to which he had consigned it for safe-keeping.
This cargo was consigned to a Whitby solicitor, Mr.
The suddenness with which intelligence of the two usurers' plans had come upon him, the little time which remained for exertion, the probability, almost amounting to certainty itself, that a few hours would place Madeline Bray for ever beyond his reach, consign her to unspeakable misery, and perhaps to an untimely death; all this quite stunned and overwhelmed him.
Next day Amy was rather late at school, but could not resist the temptation of displaying, with pardonable pride, a moist brown-paper parcel, before she consigned it to the inmost recesses of her desk.
At best it consigns you to a life of dreary repetition and terrible food, at worst your teeth fall out, your breath stinks, you erupt in boils and you sink into 13th-century malnutrition - The Good Life indeed."
The dealer cannot exist without the artwork that the artist creates and consigns.
In a footnote, the study group noted that the filing requirement might not be unreasonably onerous for some knowledgeable consumers, giving as an example "a sophisticated art collector who consigns art to a gallery." (190) The study group's suggestion might have been founded on a misconception that the art market is interchangeable with other financial markets and that one's behavior in financial dealings automatically translates to one's behavior in art dealings.
In a consignment, the owner of the goods, the consignor, delivers or consigns goods to a third party, the consignee.