Dic: Synonyms: commit, consign, entrust, confide, relegate

These verbs mean to give over to another for a purpose such as care or safekeeping.

• Commit has the widest application:
  .. The troops were committed to the general's charge.
  .. I committed the sonata to memory.
  .. The patient was committed to the hospital.
  
  
• To consign is to transfer to another's custody or charge:
  .. The owner consigned the paintings to a dealer for sale.
  
  
• Entrust and confide stress trust in another:
  .. The task was too dangerous to be entrusted to a child.
  .. She confided her plans to her family.
  
  
• To relegate is to assign to a specific and especially an inferior category or position:
  .. Some scientists relegate parapsychology to the sphere of quackery.

.... The American Heritage