To relieve is to ease a burden or take over for someone. An aspirin can relieve a headache, and a substitute can relieve the teacher who fell asleep on her desk after lunch.
To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
Verb
provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches"
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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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grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class"
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relieve oneself of troubling information
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lessen the intensity of or calm; "The news eased my conscience"; "still the fears"
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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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free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
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save from ruin, destruction, or harm
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grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam"
v. t.
To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to
cause to rise.
v. t.
To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give
prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.
v. t.
To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or
variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
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.
Relieve
Her tall figure relieved against the blue sky; seemed almost of supernatural height.3.
The poet must . . . sometimes relieve the subject with a moral reflection.4.
Now lend assistance and relieve the poor.6.
Who hath relieved you?7.
To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
Usage Examples
People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.
My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
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.
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Other Usage ExamplesPeople 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.
If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.
Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.
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.
Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
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