relegate vs remain

relegate

verb
  • Exile or banish to a particular place. 

  • Assign (a thing) to an appropriate place or situation based on appraisal or classification. 

  • Remove or send to a place far away. 

  • Submit (something) to someone else for appropriate action thereby; compare delegate. 

  • Consign (a person or thing) to a place, position, or role of obscurity, insignificance, oblivion, lower rank or (especially) inferiority. 

  • Refer (a point of contention) to an authority in deference to the judgment thereof. 

  • Transfer (a sports team) to a lower-ranking league division. 

  • Banish from proximity to Rome for a set time; compare relegate. 

remain

verb
  • To await; to be left to. 

  • To continue in a state of being. 

  • To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last. 

  • To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised. 

  • To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared. 

noun
  • That which is left; relic; remainder. 

  • That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body. 

  • Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works. 

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