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consigned

adjective as in aboard

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Half a century ago the family tree was consigned solely to paper.

A quarter of a century later, the new head of the Roman Catholic Church claimed that those days had been consigned to history.

Minnie Pearl Smith was already in custody and the two of them were consigned to the federal Bureau of Prisons.

Sotheby's and Christie's sell largely through auction, with competing bids for art consigned by sellers.

Like New York City schoolteachers consigned to the “rubber room,” Lerner cannot be easily dismissed.

Nothing doubtful or "reputed" ever arrived in the huge packing-cases consigned to Walls End Castle.

The guillotine has already consigned many of those whom she loved best to the grave.

In their thoughts she was merely a bondwoman taken from the heathen, and consigned to their keeping for their uses.

Then calling the jailer, he consigned me into his hands, ordering that I should be placed in the same dungeon with Maroncelli.

He gave up the town to pillage and rapine, allowing the doing of such deeds as have consigned his name to well-merited infamy.

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On this page you'll find 88 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to consigned, such as: boarded, embarked, en route, in transit, loaded, and on.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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