to relegate
36
6.8
- verb
- /ˈrɛlɪˌɡeɪt/
:
relegar
- After a disappointing season, the team was relegated to a lower division, losing its chance at promotion.
- relegate to lower status
- relegate to obscurity
- relegate to the margins
There's been a kind of discursive invisibility to which Indigenous people have been relegated.
- There's been a kind of discursive invisibility to which Indigenous people have been relegated.
- AJPACC, should they get relegated, They're one and nine in bowl games.
- In a post apocalyptic world, dogs take over because humans are relegated as pets.
- She had, if you look at it, no opportunities, and she was probably going to be relegated to not much in life.
Examples
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If Newcastle kept getting relegated, this is where Newcastle would end up.
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As a result, Arab states have relegated the Arab-Israeli conflict, in reality, to low priority.
Academic text (1990) -
OK, all of this is being relegated to a low status car.
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The box that he feels he was relegated to before has now become a platform.
Academic text (2013) -
As the gun improved the sword was relegated and became less and less important.
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How many other Policy operators get relegated to the back seat because of the Jones brothers?
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We have been relegated to the bottom of the barrel and all our senses of understanding and love seem gone forever.
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Blacks must never again be relegated to the sidelines of such a critical decision.
Academic text (1992) -
At that point, the club had been relegated to the Slovenian fifth league due to financial irregularities.
Academic text (2017) -
They had tried to make it in show business, probably on Broadway or in Vaudeville, and couldn't do it, so they were relegated to burlesque.
Synonyms
162
2.1
To make something weaker or in a worse state
85
6.5
To move someone to a lower job or position
43
4.9
To make something lower in rank, value or importance
37
5.6
To move someone to a lower job or rank because they did not do well
11
6.3
To treat something as less important than something else
1
8.5
To give someone a lower job or rank at work
To lower someone's social or official status
To put a team or unit back under the control of another group
To move something down in position or value
Antonyms
How Important
128
3.9
182
2.9
43
4.9
37
5.6
36
6.8
- US
81
7.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Relegate comes from Latin parts re- 'back' and legare 'to send', the same root as delegate. So to relegate someone to a lower position is like 'sending them back' to a less important place, often as a punishment.