Definition of "consign" [con•sign]

• To give over to the care of another; entrust. (verb-transitive)
• To turn over permanently to another's charge or to a lasting condition; commit irrevocably: "Their desponding imaginations had already consigned him to a watery grave” ( William Hickling Prescott). (verb-transitive)
• To deliver (merchandise, for example) for custody or sale. (verb-transitive)
• To set apart, as for a special use or purpose; assign. See Synonyms at commit. (verb-transitive)
• Obsolete To submit; consent. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Black's 8th's definitions of "consign," "consignment," and "consignation" suggest that my previous speculation may be roughly correct ...."
• "Or perhaps those who would benefit most from Imran Khan's wise suggestions are the timid little satrap/'allies' of NATO who would sooner waste their wealth, consign their sons to foreign graves and provoke generations of revenge attacks than tell a ranting yankee general at the NATO meetings to depart and leave the rest of us and themalone."
• "Because we cannot consign our nation to an open-ended recession."