Synonyms of relegating

relegating

verb

present participle of relegate

1

as in exiling

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

• exiling
• banishing
• deporting
• transporting
• evicting
• displacing
• excluding
• dismissing
• eliminating
• expatriating
• expelling
• ejecting
• spurning
• ousting
• running out
• ostracizing
• rejecting
• excommunicating
• casting out
• kicking out
• repudiating
• dispossessing
• expulsing
• throwing out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• receiving
• accepting
• admitting
• repatriating
• naturalizing
• sheltering
• taking in
• harboring
• entertaining
• housing

2

as in classifying

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

• classifying
• ranking
• distinguishing
• separating
• placing
• grouping
• distributing
• categorizing
• typing
• sorting
• grading
• identifying
• classing
• codifying
• organizing
• recognizing
• filing
• pegging
• digesting
• listing
• ranging
• referring
• compartmentalizing
• assorting
• disposing
• alphabetizing
• ordering
• compartmenting
• cataloging
• cataloguing
• systematizing
• marshalling
• culling
• breaking down
• arraying
• indexing
• marshaling
• reclassifying
• shelving
• pigeonholing
• winnowing
• sifting
• drawing up
• regrouping
• sieving
• clustering
• screening
• setting
• clumping
• recategorizing
• colligating
• subcategorizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lumping
• scrambling
• mixing (up)
• jumbling
• confusing
• disarranging
• misclassifying
• mistyping
• missorting
• mis-sorting