relegate
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"Relegate the Tommy Manvilles, Joan Bennetts, Errol Flynns ... to the back pages."
From Time Magazine Archive
Relegate, rel′e-gāt, v.t. to send away, to consign: to exile: to dismiss: to remit.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Relegate them and blur them, to the eye; let their blotches be constructive and their raggedness relative.
From Picture and Text 1893 by James, Henry
Relegate him to a distance, and they appreciate a service they have not realised until they are called upon to do without it.
From Grit Lawless by Young, F.E. Mills
Vocabulary lists containing relegate
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