Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

relegate

/ˈɹɛlɪˌɡeɪt/ verb, noun, adjective

Forms relegates relegating relegated religate relagate relegat religait

  1. verb (transitive, done to a person) Exile or banish to a particular place.
  2. verb (reflexive, obsolete, rare) Remove (oneself) to a distance from something or somewhere.
  3. verb (transitive, historical, Ancient Rome, done to a person) Banish from proximity to Rome for a set time; compare relegate.
  4. verb (transitive, figuratively) Remove or send to a place far away.
  5. verb 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.”
  6. verb Assign (a thing) to an appropriate place or situation based on appraisal or classification.
  7. verb (sports, chiefly soccer) Transfer (a sports team) to a lower-ranking league division. “After finishing second-bottom in the table, United were relegated from the division.”
  8. verb Refer (a point of contention) to an authority in deference to the judgment thereof.
  9. noun (history, obsolete) A person who has been banished from proximity to Rome for a set time, but without losing his civil rights.
  10. adjective (archaic) Relegated; exiled.

Synonyms

debase demote humble abase bring down to size cut down to size defame degrade demean depress discredit disgrace dishonour disparage downgrade embase give a bad name humiliate knock down to size put someone in their place pass on submit bump break kick downstairs banish bar classify

Antonyms

promote

Etymology

First attested in 1561, borrowed from Latin relēgātus, the past participle of relēgō (“to dispatch, banish”).

First attested circa 1550: from the Classical Latin relēgātus (“banished person, exile”), the nominative singular masculine substantive form of relēgātus, the past participle of relēgō (“to dispatch, banish”).

First attested circa 1425: from the Classical Latin relēgātus, the perfect passive participle of relēgō (“I dispatch”, “I banish”).

Webster’s 1913

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

Etymology [L. relegatus, p. p. of relegare; pref. re- re- + legare to send with a commission or charge. See Legate.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “relegate”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details