consign

Verb

Meaning

To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave.

To give in charge; to commit; to intrust.

To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to consign a cargo or a ship; to consign goods.

To submit; to surrender or yield one's self.

To yield consent; to agree; to acquiesce.

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Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. Paulo Coelho

Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us? Muhammad Reza Pahlavi

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with. Angela Carter

James Farley. Huge. Cold as a bishop. The hell he would consign you to was cold as ice. Norman Mailer

What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives. Daniel Dennett

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. Brigid Brophy

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