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Definitions of relieve
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lessen the intensity of or calm; " The news eased my conscience"; " still the fears"
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lessen the intensity of; calm; as of anxieties and fears
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free from a burden, evil, or distress
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To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
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provide relief for; " remedy his illness"
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To set free from pain, grief, & c.; to ease; to alleviate; to release from a post of duty; to mitigate; to assist.
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To alleviate; lessen; soften; lighten.
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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 free from pain or trouble.
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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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alleviate or remove; " relieve the pressure and the stress"
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relieve oneself of troubling information
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free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
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( 1) To reenforce. ( 2) To releasc, as a sentinel, by substitution.
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To set free in whole or in part, as from any pain of body or distress of mind; to mitigate; to alleviate; to help; to succour; to release, as from a post or duty.
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provide physical relief, as from pain; " This pill will relieve your headaches"
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To ease; succor; release; bring forward; set off.
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grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; " She exempted me from the exam"
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To free wholly or partly from pain or discomfort, either physical or mental.
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grant exemption or release to; " Please excuse me from this class"
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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.
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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.
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save from ruin, destruction, or harm
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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 raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.
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Relievable.
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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 or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor.
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To bring out into relief from a surface.
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take by stealing; " The thief relieved me of $ 100"
Antonyms for relieve
embarrass, embitter, sharpen, harm, worsen, saddle, intensify, harrow, discomfit, wear out, bedevil, madden, disconcert, heighten, tire, enhance, enforce, besiege, restrain, burden, nonplus, injure, agonize, afflict, persecute, exacerbate, confuse, steam up, encumber, impair, shackle, laden, magnify, aggravate, inflame, faze, mortify, confound, harass, fatigue, subject, hamper, rile, bog, weary, roil, enrage, lade, fetter, excruciate, increase, abash, jade, implement, apply, rankle, weigh down, weight, beset, hurt, augment.
Quotes of relieve
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I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.
– Donald Berwick -
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve how exquisite the bliss!
– Robert Burns -
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
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In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.
– Jane Byrne -
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
– Ulysses S. Grant -
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
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There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.
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One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve
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I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
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The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self -correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.
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Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
– Allen Tate -
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
– Cal Thomas
Usage examples for relieve
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“ " I called you up to relieve your mind regarding the young woman who came last night," he said. ”
– Green Fancy by George Barr McCutcheon -
“ There was nothing to relieve the situation. ”
– Out of the Fog by C. K. Ober -
“ Hiram tied his rope to a tree, and then ran back to relieve me. ”
– The Young Forester by Zane Grey -
“ " In that case"- he produced a paper-" it becomes my duty to relieve you." ”
– The Short Line War by Merwin-Webster -
“ Early that afternoon Peter's father took him home to relieve the anxiety he knew the boy's mother must be feeling. ”
– Some Three Hundred Years Ago by Edith Gilman Brewster -
“ Relieve your feelings, my boy!" ”
– The Silent Mill by Hermann Sudermann -
“ He had not dared to ask the tailor how much ready money he would take down to abandon the lady, and thus to relieve them all from that difficulty. ”
– Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope -
“ Her husband, when the matter was being discussed, at once made her understand that he would not relieve her by an offer to perform the task. ”
– The Claverings by Anthony Trollope -
“ I have come here now, not merely to tell you this, but to add that I intend to relieve you of the care of- ah, the little boy. ”
– An Old Chester Secret by Margaret Deland -
“ I wish I could relieve your mind of everything else as easily. ”
– The Hunt Ball Mystery by Magnay, William -
“ At midnight Carew came on deck to relieve the mate. ”
– A Desperate Voyage by Edward Frederick Knight -
“ If he could not win her for himself he could, at least, find out the cause and help relieve her pain. ”
– Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero by F. Hopkinson Smith -
“ You can't think, sir, how you relieve my mind. ”
– News from the Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch -
“ Shall I relieve you of your gun? ”
– Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories by Bret Harte -
“ The very possibility was fearful; and as it flashed upon her mind, Emily went to the window to relieve herself from the oppressive gloom of a sick chamber, by looking upon the heavenly beauty of a cloud- less night. ”
– Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Sewell -
“ I'll relieve you directly." ”
– Burr Junior by G. Manville Fenn -
“ The centinels relieve guard. ”
– A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin -
“ Did your speech mean that you would not press the Egyptian Government to relieve Claridge Pasha at once? ”
– The Weavers, Complete by Gilbert Parker Last Updated: March 14, 2009 -
“ " Well, we will soon relieve their anxiety," replied Mr Braine. ”
– The Rajah of Dah by George Manville Fenn -
“ Later we may be able to hit upon some plan to relieve you of the burden of the crown. ”
– The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Rhymes for relieve
- breve, cleave, cleve, eave, eve, greave, greve, grieve, heave, leave, leve, meave, naeve, neve, peeve, reave, reeve, sleeve, steve, vive, we've, weave, yves;
- achieve, aggrieve, aleve, aviv, believe, bereave, conceive, deceive, geneve, naive, perceive, rajiv, receive, reprieve, retrieve, sanjiv;
- disbelieve, interleave, interweave, misconceive, misperceive, preconceive;