RELIEVE
\ɹɪlˈiːv], \ɹɪlˈiːv], \ɹ_ɪ_l_ˈiː_v]\
Definitions of RELIEVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches"
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grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class"
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provide relief for; "remedy his illness"
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alleviate or remove; "relieve the pressure and the stress"
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take by stealing; "The thief relieved me of $100"
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free from a burden, evil, or distress
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save from ruin, destruction, or harm
By Princeton University
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provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches"
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grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class"
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provide relief for; "remedy his illness"
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alleviate or remove; "relieve the pressure and the stress"
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take by stealing; "The thief relieved me of $100"
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free from a burden, evil, or distress
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
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To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.
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To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.
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To free, wholly or partly, from any burden, trial, evil, distress, or the like; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town.
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To release from a post, station, or duty; to put another in place of, or to take the place of, in the bearing of any burden, or discharge of any duty.
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To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right.
By Oddity Software
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To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
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To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.
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To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.
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To free, wholly or partly, from any burden, trial, evil, distress, or the like; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town.
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To release from a post, station, or duty; to put another in place of, or to take the place of, in the bearing of any burden, or discharge of any duty.
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To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right.
By Noah Webster.
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To free from pain, suffering, grief, etc.; as, to relieve an anxious mind; give comfort or aid to; as, to relieve the needy; reduce in severity; lessen; as, to relieve anxiety; to free from a post of duty; as, to relieve a patrol; make less grave or gloomy; light up; as, a little pleausre relieves the monotony of work; bring out by contrast; as, a touch of red will relieve the black.
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Relievable.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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To remove from that which weighs down or depresses: to lessen: to ease: to help: to release: (fine art) to set off by contrast: (law) to redress.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To alleviate; lessen; soften; lighten.
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To bring out into relief from a surface.
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(1) To reenforce. (2) To releasc, as a sentinel, by substitution.
By James Champlin Fernald
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