relegate
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Is relegate a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. Exile, banish, remove, or send away.transitive
2. Exile, banish, remove, or send away.obsoleterarereflexive
3. Exile, banish, remove, or send away.Examples: "Eventually his freedom of speech drove Vespasian to relegate him a second time, and shortly after he was executed […]."Ancient-Romehistoricaltransitive
4. Exile, banish, remove, or send away.figurativelytransitive
5. (transitive, in extended use) Consign or assign.Examples: "Her bright ideas were relegated to "tosh" by her manager."; "Our correspondent adds that, when he visited Rouen in 1910, the engine had been relegated to the shuttle service between Rouen (Rive Droite) and Rouen (Rive Gauche)."; "A Class 158 relegated from express duties turns up to transport me via the flower-bedecked Brighouse station to the trans-Pennine main line at Bradley Junction and onwards to Huddersfield."transitive
6. (transitive, in extended use) Consign or assign.transitive
noun (English)
1. (history, obsolete) A person who has been banished from proximity to Rome for a set time, but without losing his civil rights.obsolete
adj (English)
1. (archaic) Relegated; exiled.archaicnot-comparable
Definition source: Wiktionary