consign

Universal Words verb [VN] (formal) 1 ~ sb/sth to sth to put sb/sth somewhere in order to get rid of them: I consigned her letter to the waste basket. * What I didn't want was to see my mother consigned to an old people's home. 2 ~ sb/sth to sth to put sb/sth in an unpleasant situation: The decision to close the factory has consigned 6000 people to the scrap heap. * A car accident consigned him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. 3 to give or send sth to sb