Synonyms of relegates

relegates

verb

present tense third-person singular of relegate

1

as in banishes

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• banishes
• exiles
• deports
• evicts
• transports
• displaces
• dismisses
• eliminates
• excludes
• expels
• ejects
• expatriates
• spurns
• runs out
• rejects
• casts out
• ousts
• kicks out
• excommunicates
• repudiates
• ostracizes
• dispossesses
• throws out
• expulses

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• receives
• accepts
• admits
• naturalizes
• takes in
• entertains
• repatriates
• shelters
• harbors
• houses

2

as in classifies

to arrange or assign according to type

some psychologists argue that the syndrome should be relegated to a different class of autism

Synonyms & Similar Words

• classifies
• distinguishes
• ranks
• separates
• groups
• categorizes
• distributes
• types
• sorts
• identifies
• codifies
• organizes
• recognizes
• grades
• lists
• places
• classes
• refers
• compartmentalizes
• digests
• pegs
• files
• ranges
• disposes
• breaks down
• assorts
• compartments
• orders
• systematizes
• alphabetizes
• culls
• catalogs
• indexes
• shelves
• sifts
• reclassifies
• marshals
• draws up
• winnows
• pigeonholes
• arrays
• regroups
• clumps
• clusters
• sets
• screens
• colligates
• subcategorizes
• sieves
• recategorizes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• confuses
• mixes (up)
• scrambles
• lumps
• jumbles
• disarranges
• misclassifies
• missorts
• mistypes

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of relegates

The move relegates longtime Renegades starter Luis Perez to the bench. — José Sánchez Córdova, Dallas Morning News, 25 Mar. 2026

Robby relegates Langdon to triage for now — there’s less of a chance the two will run into each other that way. — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026

Ed’s high-paying job allows (or relegates) Jess to be a stay-at-home mum, her life devoted to (and circumscribed by) her children. — Judy Berman, Time, 10 Dec. 2025

Unfortunately, the rush to capitalize on AI’s potential often relegates security to an afterthought. — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2025

But that’s not true of the Echo Show, which smartly relegates the screen to secondary importance. — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 22 Nov. 2024

The move relegates Miller Moss to a reserve role after nine uneven starts this season. — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024

That pretty much relegates it to the back of the big mixed border in the garden. — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 4 Oct. 2024

Then-Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski relegates Sanders to fourth string on the team’s initial depth chart. — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019