consign somebody/something to something phrasal verb formal ( see also ↑ consign )
1 . to make someone or something be in a particular situation, especially a bad one:
It was a decision which consigned him to political obscurity.
consign somebody/something to the dustbin/scrapheap/rubbish heap etc British English :
Many older people feel they have been consigned to the medical scrapheap.
2 . to put something somewhere, especially in order to get rid of it:
The shoes looked so tatty that I consigned them to the back of the cupboard.