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consign
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to cause to go or be taken from one place to another
- consigned the prisoner to the dungeon
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to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another
- The deliveryman had consigned our package to a next-door neighbor.
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commit, entrust, confide, consign, relegate mean to assign to a person or place for a definite purpose. 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.
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- committed the felon to prison
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- the president is entrusted with broad powers
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- confided complete control of my affairs to my attorney
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- consigned the damaging notes to the fire
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- relegated to an obscure position in the company
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