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present participle of relegate
Synonyms & Antonyms of relegating
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
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2
to arrange or assign according to type
- some psychologists argue that the syndrome should be relegated to a different class of autism
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- alphabetizing,
- cataloging
- (or cataloguing),
- filing,
- indexing,
- listing,
- referring
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“Relegating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relegating. Accessed 20 Jan. 2022.
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