Word Meanings - CONSIGN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To send or address to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to cosign a cargo or a ship; to set apart. 4. To assign; to devote; to set apart. The French commander consigned

Additional info about word: CONSIGN

To send or address to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to cosign a cargo or a ship; to set apart. 4. To assign; to devote; to set apart. The French commander consigned it to the use for which it was intended by the donor. Dryden. 5. To stamp or impress; to affect. Consign my spirit with great fear. Jer. Taylor. Syn. -- To commit; deliver; intrust; resign. See Commit. (more info) 1. 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. At the day of general account, good men are to be consigned over to another state. Atterbury. 2. To give in charge; to commit; to intrust. Atrides, parting for the Trojan war, Consigned the youthful consort to his care. Pope. The four evangelists consigned to writing that history. Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONSIGN)

• Assign
• Attribute
• apportion
• allege
• refer
• specify
• consign
• intrust
• commit
• point out
• allot to
• adduce
• advance
• appoint
• convey
• Convey
• Take
• carry
• transfer
• relegate
• bear
• transmit
• transport
• remove
• Deliver
• Liberate
• free
• save
• utter
• set free
• surrender
• yield
• concede
• give up
• rescue
• pronounce
• hand
• give
• entrust

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONSIGN)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Divorce
• disconnect
• dissociate
• dissever
• endanger
• imperil
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• expose
• Recal
• repress
• hush
• stifle
• check
• swallow

Related words: (words related to CONSIGN)

• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• CONSIGNER
  One who consigns. See Consignor.
• DIVORCEABLE
  Capable of being divorced.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• ALLOTTABLE
  Capable of being allotted.
• TRANSMITTER
  One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- opposed to receiver.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• DISSEVER
  To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info)
• DELIVERABLE
  Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.
• ALLOTRIOPHAGY
  A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• REFER
  1. To carry or send back. Chaucer. 2. Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, infirmation, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar
• UTTERLY
  In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.
• UTTERNESS
  The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• UNUTTERABLE
  Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• MUTTERER
  One who mutters.
• REDELIVER
  1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
• GUTTER
  1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove;
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• BUTTER-SCOTCH
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.