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consegnare — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • betray verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
  • consign verb To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.
  • deliver verb To bring or take something to its intended destination.
  • hand noun The part of the body at the end of the arm, used for grasping and manipulating objects.
  • relinquish verb To give up or hand over a right, position, or possession, often reluctantly.

Senses

consegnare is used for these senses in English:

  • betray (transitive) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.
  • consign (transitive, business) To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.
  • deliver To bring or transport something to its destination.
  • deliver To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
  • relinquish (transitive) To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.
  • turn in (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give up; to tell on someone to the authorities (especially to turn someone in).
  • turn over To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.

betray — full definition

  1. verb To be disloyal to someone who trusts you, especially by helping their enemies or breaking a promise.
  2. verb To reveal something unintentionally.

consign — full definition

  1. verb To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.
  2. verb To entrust to the care of another.
  3. verb To send to a final destination.
  4. verb To assign; to devote; to set apart.

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