relegating

Verb

relegate (third-person singular simple present relegates, present participle relegating, simple past and past participle relegated)

1. (transitive, done to a person) Exile or banish to a particular place.
2. (obsolete, rare, reflexive) Remove (oneself) to a distance from something or somewhere.
3. (Ancient-Rome, historical, transitive, done to a person) Banish from proximity to Rome for a set time; compare relegate.
   • Eventually his freedom of speech drove Vespasian to relegate him a second time, and shortly after he was executed […].2002, Mark Morford, The Roman Philosophers, →ISBN, page 183
4. (figuratively, transitive) Remove or send to a place far away.
5. (transitive) Consign (a person or thing) to a place, position, or role of obscurity, insignificance, oblivion, lower rank or (especially) inferiority.
   • Her bright ideas were relegated to "tosh" by her manager.

   Synonyms:

   debase, demote, humble, abase, bring down to size, cut down to size, defame, degrade, demean, depress

6. (transitive) Assign (a thing) to an appropriate place or situation based on appraisal or classification.

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