relieve

IPA: rɪɫˈiv

verb

(transitive) To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or worried, to alleviate the distress of.
(transitive) To ease (someone, a part of the body etc.) or give relief from physical pain or discomfort.
(transitive) To alleviate (pain, distress, mental discomfort etc.).
(transitive) To provide comfort or assistance to (someone in need, especially in poverty).
(obsolete) To lift up; to raise again.
(now rare) To raise (someone) out of danger or from (a specified difficulty etc.).
(law) To free (someone) from debt or legal obligations; to give legal relief to.
(transitive) To bring military help to (a besieged town); to lift the siege on.
To release (someone) from or of a difficulty, unwanted task, responsibility etc.
(originally military) To free (someone) from their post, task etc. by taking their place.
(now rare) To make (something) stand out; to make prominent, bring into relief.
(reflexive, euphemistic) To urinate or defecate.
(reflexive, euphemistic) To ease one's own desire to orgasm, often through masturbation to orgasm.

Examples of "relieve" in Sentences

The pill relieved the pain.
He was relieved of his duties.
She relieved after the nervy win.
Fanny is relieved to free the child.
The paramedic is stunned and relieved.
This will help relieve some of the itch.
The quiescence of volcano relieves people.
The overall atmosphere was relieved and composed.
[4] The translator's word 'relieve' (relyuue) represents
Fanny is relieved to be free of the encumbrance of a child.
I guess her boyfriend just wanted to give her ample time to "relieve" herself.
I educate women and the public on the games people play when they try to, as I call it, "relieve you of your money."
Where subsistence is doled out, the desideratum has been achieved, of general want and a superior power to "relieve" it.
Many moons ago, on the mainland of Europe, I first heard the phrase "relieve pressure by creating it where least expected".
So does she feel like there should be more active duty presence to kind of relieve that pressure on all the reservists and National Guard?
On other days he dined later, by himself, but at the family table, when Mrs. Baines or one of the assistants could "relieve" him in the shop.
Astringent tonics, are such as relieve floodings and hemorrhages of every kind and may be advantageously employed in all profuse evacuations and relaxed states of the system.
Sainte-Beuve -- no weak-stomached reader -- was put off by its blotches of blood and grime, and by the sort of ghastly gorgeousness which, if it does not "relieve" these, forms a kind of background to throw them up.
These men, with the exception of two or three who formed the permanent crew of the tender, were either going off to "relieve" their comrades and take their turn on board the floating lights, or were on their way to land, having been "relieved" -- such as George Welton the mate, Dick Moy, and

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