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
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for consign is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does consign appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — consign appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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