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Relieve   /rɪlˈiv/  /rilˈiv/   Listen
Relieve

verb
(past & past part. relieved; pres. part. relieving)
1.
Provide physical relief, as from pain.  Synonyms: alleviate, assuage, palliate.
2.
Free someone temporarily from his or her obligations.  Synonym: take over.
3.
Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to.  Synonyms: exempt, free.
4.
Lessen the intensity of or calm.  Synonyms: allay, ease, still.  "Still the fears"
5.
Save from ruin, destruction, or harm.  Synonyms: salvage, salve, save.
6.
Relieve oneself of troubling information.  Synonym: unbosom.
7.
Provide relief for.  Synonym: remedy.
8.
Free from a burden, evil, or distress.
9.
Take by stealing.
10.
Grant exemption or release to.  Synonyms: excuse, exempt, let off.
11.
Alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive.  Synonym: lighten.  "Lighten the burden of caring for her elderly parents"



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"Relieve" Quotes from Famous Books



... It was the first laugh that had been heard in camp for some time, so it was welcome, helping to relieve the tension as it did. Tommy turned her eyes on her stout friend in a droll way which ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills - The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains • Janet Aldridge
... while, she would accept an invitation from you to travel in Europe for a time. I would appear to oppose it at first, but gradually yield to your persuasions, and, later, I would myself join you abroad and relieve you of your charge. Once get her across the Atlantic, and it will be an easy matter to keep her there until she comes ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... as before (123), Shakepere would show Hamlet's soul full of bitterest, passionate loathing; his mother has compelled him to think of horrors and women together, so turning their preciousness into a disgust; and this feeling, his assumed madhess allows him to indulge and partly relieve by utterance. Could he have provoked Ophelia to rebuke him with the severity he courted, such rebuke would have been joy to him. Perhaps yet a small addition of weight to the scale of his excuse may be found in his excitement about his play, and the ...
— The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 • George MacDonald
... some time pretty smoothly. Miss Keeldar's health was re-established; her spirits resumed their flow. Moore had found means to relieve her from every nervous apprehension; and, indeed, from the moment of giving him her confidence, every fear seemed to have taken wing. Her heart became as lightsome, her manner as careless, as those of a little child, that, thoughtless of its own life or death, trusts all responsibility to ...
— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte
... the first time. They would have liked to take turns driving the pair of horses that drew the boat, but it seemed too bold a wish, and I think they never proposed it; they did not ask, either, to relieve the ...
— A Boy's Town • W. D. Howells


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