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Synonyms for relegate
ˈrɛl ɪˌgeɪtrel·e·gate

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. relegate

    Commit, in the sense here considered, is to give in charge, put into care or keeping; to confide or entrust is to commit especially to one's fidelity, confide being used chiefly of mental or spiritual, entrust also of material things; we assign a duty, confide a secret, entrust a treasure; we commit thoughts to writing; commit a paper to the flames, a body to the earth; a prisoner is committed to jail. Consign is a formal word in mercantile use; as, to consign goods to an agent. Religiously, we consign the body to the grave, commit the soul to God. Compare DO.

    Synonyms:
    assign, commit, confide, consign, entrust, trust

    Preposition:
    Commit to a friend for safe-keeping; in law, commit to prison; for trial; without bail; in default of bail; on suspicion.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. relegate

    Synonyms:
    remove, transfer, banish, transport, exile, deport, despatch

    Antonyms:
    recal, locate, reinstate

Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 1 vote

  1. relegate, pass on, submitverb

    refer to another person for decision or judgment

    "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues"

    Synonyms:
    demote, circulate, classify, banish, put forward, impart, pass on, kick downstairs, put in, give in, resign, progress, reach, present, communicate, advance, defer, state, subject, bow, reconcile, accede, break, give, go on, pass, render, move on, pass along, take, bar, pass around, put across, distribute, turn over, leave, bump, posit, march on, submit, hand

  2. demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairsverb

    assign to a lower position; reduce in rank

    "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant"

    Synonyms:
    crack, bar, give way, violate, break dance, give out, unwrap, fall apart, collapse, die, classify, transgress, founder, weaken, discover, snap off, stop, go, demote, break out, separate, split, give away, damp, smash, happen, knock, interrupt, offend, get out, fracture, bring out, soften, reveal, divulge, pause, let on, get around, bust, wear out, cave in, encounter, break-dance, check, break up, breach, break in, give, split up, chance, better, burst, go bad, break off, disclose, find, erupt, recrudesce, submit, go against, dampen, break down, break away, fall in, bump, let out, conk out, ruin, kick downstairs, part, infract, fail, come apart, bankrupt, develop, expose, break, banish, discontinue, intermit, dislodge, wear, pass on

  3. banish, relegate, barverb

    expel, as if by official decree

    "he was banished from his own country"

    Synonyms:
    barricade, blockade, block up, bump, cast out, banish, classify, ban, blackball, submit, demote, break, debar, block, kick downstairs, bar, ostracize, block off, pass on, exclude, ostracise, stop, shun

  4. relegate, classifyverb

    assign to a class or kind

    "How should algae be classified?"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms"

    Synonyms:
    kick downstairs, bump, assort, pass on, bar, class, banish, classify, demote, separate, sort, sort out, break, submit

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. relegateverb

    Synonyms:
    transfer, remove, consign

  2. relegateverb

    Synonyms:
    banish, expatriate, send into exile

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "relegate":

    consign

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How to use relegate in a sentence?

  1. David Friedman:

    To my friend Donald Trump, you are better than this. Even a social visit from an antisemite like Kanye West and human scum like Nick Fuentes is unacceptable, i urge you to throw those bums out, disavow them and relegate them to the dustbin of history where they belong.

  2. Leo Strine:

    To relegate those kinds of things to an arbitration proceeding, in my view is fundamentally inconsistent with the historical promise of our corporate law. It is not our brand.


Translations for relegate

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  • نزل الى الدرجة الثانيةArabic
  • relegarSpanish
  • karkottaa, alentaa, sijoittaa, siirtääFinnish
  • reléguerFrench
  • bannen, verbannen, relegerenDutch

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