Relegates - English meaning

verb

Send (someone) away from a country or place as an official punishment.

Usage examples:

A number of people were banished to siberia for political crimes

verb

To send someone away and forbid the person to come back

Usage examples:

He was banished from his sister's house., their goal is to banish war forever.

noun

A woman's chest as measured around her breasts.

Usage examples:

A 36-inch bust

verb

Break, split, or burst.

Usage examples:

They bust the tunnel wide open

adjective

Damaged or broken.

Usage examples:

The vacuum cleaner's bust

verb

Deliver (something) to a person's keeping.

Usage examples:

He consigned three paintings to sotheby's

verb

To give or send, or to put someone in an unpleasant place or situation

Usage examples:

She refused to consign her children to a life of poverty.

verb

To send goods or documents to a person or company

Usage examples:

Consign sth to sb the goods will be consigned to you by air freight., most items that you consign t…

verb

Remove (someone) from their original social class.

Usage examples:

The proletariat has been declassed

verb

Treat or regard (someone) with contempt or disrespect.

Usage examples:

She thought that many supposedly erotic pictures degraded women

verb

To reduce the quality of something

Usage examples:

Degrading water/air quality, degraded sound quality, the state is funding projects to restore degra…

verb

To become worse in quality, or to make something worse

Usage examples:

Unlike with a cassette player, the sound of the mp3 player doesn't degrade as the battery weakens.

verb

Move (someone) to a lower position or rank, usually as a punishment.

Usage examples:

The head of the army was demoted to deputy defence secretary

verb

To lower someone in rank or position

Usage examples:

The department is planning to demote some managers as a cost-saving measure., [ u ] he faces possib…

verb

To move someone to a less senior job than the one they had before

Usage examples:

Demote sb from/to sth her manager demoted her from her job as a supervisor., demote sb for sth sour…

verb

Reduce (a sailor) to a lower rank.

Usage examples:

He had been disrated for an unsavoury escapade

verb

Reduce to a lower grade, rank, or level of importance.

Usage examples:

Some jobs had gradually been downgraded from skilled to semi-skilled

noun

An instance of reducing someone or something's rank, status, or level of importance.

Usage examples:

Downgrades by debt-rating agencies outnumber upgrades by five to one

verb

To reduce someone or something to a lower rank or position; to make less important or less valued

Usage examples:

They threatened to downgrade my credit rating if i don’t pay the bill immediately.

noun

The state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons.

Usage examples:

He knew now that he would die in exile

verb

Expel and bar (someone) from their native country, typically for political or punitive reasons.

Usage examples:

A corrupt dictator who had been exiled from his country

adjective

Less high in position.

Usage examples:

The lower levels of the building

adverb

Denoting an older (and hence usually deeper) part of a stratigraphic division or archaeological deposit or the period in which it was formed or deposited.

Usage examples:

Lower cretaceous

verb

Move (someone or something) in a downward direction.

Usage examples:

He watched the coffin being lowered into the ground

collocation

Put in a horizontal position

phrasal verb

Stop holding something and place it on a surface or the ground.

Usage examples:

Harry put down his cup

phrasal verb

Record something in writing.

Usage examples:

He's putting a few thoughts down on paper