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Relegate

To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.

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Broader term 7

Assign 76% connected

To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Attribute 76% connected

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Delegate 76% connected

Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Depute 76% connected

To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.

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Designate 76% connected

Designated; appointed; chosen.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Expel 76% connected

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Submit 76% connected

To let down; to lower.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Reduce 76% connected

To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Spike 76% connected

A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.

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Category 74% connected

One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Category 74% connected

One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Class 74% connected

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…

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Class 74% connected

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Classificatory 74% connected

Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification.

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Classificatory 74% connected

Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification.

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Synonym 6

Banish 92% connected

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bar 92% connected

A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Break 92% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bump 92% connected

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Classify 92% connected

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Submit 92% connected

To let down; to lower.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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