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relegate
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of RELEGATE
1
to force to leave a country <courtiers and generals who incurred the emperor's disfavor were soon relegated to the farther reaches of the empire>
Related Words cast out, dismiss, eject, eliminate, evict, exclude, expel, expulse, kick out, oust, run out, throw out; excommunicate, ostracize, reject, repudiate, spurn; dispossess
Near Antonyms naturalize, repatriate; accept, admit, receive, take in; entertain, harbor, house, shelter
2
to arrange or assign according to type <some psychologists argue that the syndrome should be relegated to a different class of autism>
Synonyms assort, break down, categorize, class, codify, compartment, compartmentalize, digest, distinguish, distribute, grade, group, peg, place, range, rank, relegate, separate, sort, type
Related Words array, dispose, draw up, marshal (also marshall), order, organize, systematize; alphabetize, catalog (or catalogue), file, index, list, refer; pigeonhole, shelve; identify, recognize; cull, screen, set, sieve, sift, winnow; clump, cluster, colligate; recategorize, reclassify, regroup; subcategorize
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