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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 hand something over to someone else's care, often for selling, moving or storing it.
  • 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 hand something over to someone else's care, often for selling, moving or storing it.
  2. verb To place something or someone in another person's care.
  3. verb To send something on to where it is finally meant to go.
  4. verb To set something aside for a particular purpose or fate.
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