relegate
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 8
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Definition of relegate
12 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (transitive)Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
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verb
- (transitive)Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
- (obsolete, rare, reflexive)Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
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(Ancient-Rome, historical, transitive)Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
“Eventually his freedom of speech drove Vespasian to relegate him a second time, and shortly after he was executed […].”
- (figuratively, transitive)Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
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(transitive)Consign or assign.
“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)Consign or assign.
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(transitive)Consign or assign.
“After finishing second-bottom in the table, United were relegated from the division.”
- (transitive)Refer or submit.
- (transitive)Refer or submit.
- (archaic, transitive)Refer or submit.
noun
- (obsolete)A person who has been banished from proximity to Rome for a set time, but without losing his civil rights.
adj
- (archaic, not-comparable)Relegated; exiled.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
First attested in 1561, borrowed from Latin relēgātus, the past participle of relēgō (“to dispatch, banish”).
Words you can make from relegate
135 playable · top: EGLATERE (9 pts)
Best play eglatere 9 points8-letter words
1 word7-letter words
2 words6-letter words
11 words5-letter words
35 words- AGLEE 6 pts
- AGLET 6 pts
- AGREE 6 pts
- ARGLE 6 pts
- EAGER 6 pts
- EAGLE 6 pts
- EAGRE 6 pts
- EGRET 6 pts
- GATER 6 pts
- GELEE 6 pts
- GLARE 6 pts
- GLEET 6 pts
- GRATE 6 pts
- GREAT 6 pts
- GREET 6 pts
- LAGER 6 pts
- LARGE 6 pts
- LEGER 6 pts
- RAGEE 6 pts
- REGAL 6 pts
- RETAG 6 pts
- TARGE 6 pts
- TERGA 6 pts
- ALERT 5 pts
- ALTER 5 pts
- ARETE 5 pts
- ARTEL 5 pts
- EATER 5 pts
- ELATE 5 pts
- LAREE 5 pts
- LATER 5 pts
- RATEL 5 pts
- RELET 5 pts
- TALER 5 pts
- TELAE 5 pts
4-letter words
34 words- AGEE 5 pts
- AGER 5 pts
- AREG 5 pts
- EGAL 5 pts
- EGER 5 pts
- GALE 5 pts
- GATE 5 pts
- GEAR 5 pts
- GELT 5 pts
- GETA 5 pts
- GLEE 5 pts
- GRAT 5 pts
- GREE 5 pts
- RAGE 5 pts
- ALEE 4 pts
- EARL 4 pts
- LATE 4 pts
- LEAR 4 pts
- LEER 4 pts
- LEET 4 pts
- RALE 4 pts
- RATE 4 pts
- REAL 4 pts
- REEL 4 pts
- RETE 4 pts
- TAEL 4 pts
- TALE 4 pts
- TARE 4 pts
- TEAL 4 pts
- TEAR 4 pts
- TEEL 4 pts
- TELA 4 pts
- TELE 4 pts
- TREE 4 pts
3-letter words
39 words- AGE 4 pts
- ERG 4 pts
- GAE 4 pts
- GAL 4 pts
- GAR 4 pts
- GAT 4 pts
- GEE 4 pts
- GEL 4 pts
- GET 4 pts
- LAG 4 pts
- LEG 4 pts
- RAG 4 pts
- REG 4 pts
- TAG 4 pts
- TEG 4 pts
- ALE 3 pts
- ALT 3 pts
- ARE 3 pts
- ART 3 pts
- ATE 3 pts
- EAR 3 pts
- EAT 3 pts
- EEL 3 pts
- ERA 3 pts
- ERE 3 pts
- ETA 3 pts
- LAR 3 pts
- LAT 3 pts
- LEA 3 pts
- LEE 3 pts
- LET 3 pts
- RAT 3 pts
- REE 3 pts
- RET 3 pts
- TAE 3 pts
- TAR 3 pts
- TEA 3 pts
- TEE 3 pts
- TEL 3 pts
2-letter words
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