Synonyms and Antonyms of relegate
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
cast out, dismiss, eject, eliminate, evict, exclude, expel, expulse, kick out, oust, run out, throw out
excommunicate, ostracize, reject, repudiate, spurn
dispossess
2
to arrange or assign according to type
- some psychologists argue that the syndrome should be relegated to a different class of autism
assort, break down, categorize, class, classify, codify, compartment, compartmentalize, digest, distinguish, distribute, grade, group, peg, place, range, rank, separate, sort, type
array, dispose, draw up, marshal (also marshall), order, organize, systematize
alphabetize, catalog (or catalogue), file, index, list, refer
pigeonhole, shelve
identify, recognize
cull, screen, set, sieve, sift, winnow
clump, cluster, colligate
recategorize, reclassify, regroup
subcategorize
