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Answer for the clue "Consign ", 6 letters:
commit

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Word definitions for commit in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commit \Com*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Committed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Committing .] [L. committere, commissum, to connect, commit; com- + mittere to send. See Mission .] To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to give in charge, entrust," from Latin committere "to unite, connect, combine; to bring together," from com- "together" (see com- ) + mittere "to put, send" (see mission ). Evolution into modern range of meanings is not entirely clear. Sense ...

Usage examples of commit.

Then Aarhus and Uclod were there, pounding and stomping and generally committing mayhem until the woman lay still.

If Adams had any thoughts or feelings about the passing of the epochal eighteenth century--any observations on the Age of Enlightenment, the century of Johnson, Voltaire, the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the age of Pitt and Washington, the advent of the United States of America--or if he had any premonitions or words to the wise about the future of his country or of humankind, he committed none to paper.

If he developed information that a crime was about to be committed, agents would then move in and do the necessary surveillance to make a case.

New York SOG that had committed a half dozen agents and five vehicles on four Sundays in a row to follow Abouhalima, Salameh, Nosair, and Ayyad as they trained with automatic weapons at Calverton.

The word reportedly came down to Neal Herman, head of the Joint Terrorist Task Force, who had committed a number of his agents to the Flight 800 probe.

He also heard from Prior Alcock that for a month past, the forest below Malvern Abbey, about the Rhydd ford, had been the haunt of a body of outlaws who had committed numerous depredations of an alarming character.

Her Anabaptist doctrines were tolerated, as were most cults, but the Naval Service, like the rest of the Government, was committed to the Great Yahwehist Christian Reunification.

BentAnat yesterday morning committed a heavy sin, and that in all the temples in the land the Gods shall be entreated with offerings to take her uncleanness from her.

In your heart you know that no crime was committed and that the lodging of the report you contemplate would only hurt each of you.

In his dreams Andas saw the Triple Towers in ruins, even as Wenditkover had been, or else a detachment of the guard waiting to take him prisoner for some crime his double had committed in his name.

The account also did not raise other issues such as whether Mexicans committed proportionally more violent crimes against Anglos than Anglos against Mexicans.

The basest of these forms is in some respects cruelty to animals, since animals are so thoroughly committed into our hands.

I do not confess anything to him because I did not examine my conscience sufficiently, and I answered him that I had nothing to say, but that if he liked I would commit a few sins for the purpose of having something to tell him in confession.

He wondered what became of Archimedean Enterprises if Kathy was declared unable to manage her affairs, if she was forcibly committed.

Rome, Arvandus was committed to the hospitality, rather than to the custody, of Flavius Asellus, the count of the sacred largesses, who resided in the Capitol.