Synonyms for relegate
Definitions
- v. 1
Consign or assign. Consign (a person or thing) to a place, position, or role of obscurity, insignificance, oblivion, lower rank or (especially) inferiority.
Her bright ideas were relegated to "tosh" by her manager.
- v. 2
Exile, banish, remove, or send away. Exile or banish to a particular place.
- v. 3
Exile, banish, remove, or send away. Banish from proximity to Rome for a set time; compare relegate.
- v. 4
Exile, banish, remove, or send away. Remove or send to a place far away.
Related words
- Word family
- relegation
Forms
- Past participle
- relegated
e.g. relegated → demoted, reduced, downgraded, humbled…
Example sentences
- reduce How can we reduce the number of highway accidents?
- humble However humble it is, there is no place like home.
- classify One can classify books into good ones and bad ones.
By length
- 3 letters
- bar1
- 4 letters
- bump1
- 5 letters
- break1, exile2, expel2, abase
- 6 letters
- reduce2, submit2, commit2, humble2, convey2, deport2, banish2, demote2, debase2, embase
- 7 letters
- degrade2, consign2
- 8 letters
- transfer2, classify3
- 9 letters
- transport2, downgrade2
- 10 letters
- expatriate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (exile2 = 2 syllables).