What does relieve mean?
Definitions for relieve
rɪˈlivre·lieve
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word relieve.
Princeton's WordNet
relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuageverb
provide physical relief, as from pain
"This pill will relieve your headaches"
take over, relieveverb
free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
exempt, relieve, freeverb
grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
"She exempted me from the exam"
still, allay, relieve, easeverb
lessen the intensity of or calm
"The news eased my conscience"; "still the fears"
salvage, salve, relieve, saveverb
save from ruin, destruction, or harm
unbosom, relieveverb
relieve oneself of troubling information
remedy, relieveverb
provide relief for
"remedy his illness"
relieveverb
free from a burden, evil, or distress
relieveverb
take by stealing
"The thief relieved me of $100"
excuse, relieve, let off, exemptverb
grant exemption or release to
"Please excuse me from this class"
relieve, lightenverb
alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive
"relieve the pressure and the stress"; "lighten the burden of caring for her elderly parents"
Wiktionary
relieveverb
To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or worried, to alleviate the distress of.
relieveverb
To ease (someone, a part of the body etc.) or give relief from physical pain or discomfort.
relieveverb
To alleviate (pain, distress, mental discomfort etc.).
relieveverb
To provide comfort or assistance to (someone in need, especially in poverty).
relieveverb
To lift up; to raise again.
relieveverb
To raise (someone) out of danger or from (a specified difficulty etc.).
relieveverb
To free (someone) from debt or legal obligations; to give legal relief to.
This shall not relieve either Party of any obligations.
relieveverb
To bring military help to (a besieged town); to lift the seige on.
relieveverb
To release (someone) from or of a difficulty, unwanted task, responsibility etc.
relieveverb
To free (someone) from their post, task etc. by taking their place.
relieveverb
To make (something) stand out; to make prominent, bring into relief.
relieveverb
To go to the toilet; to defecate or urinate.
Etymology: From relever, specifically from the conjugated forms such as relieve, and its source, relevo, combined form of re- + levo. Compare levant, levity, etc.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To RELIEVE
Etymology: relevo, Lat. relever, Fr.
As the great lamp of day,
Through diff’rent regions, does his course pursue,
And leaves one world but to revive a new;
While, by a pleasing change, the queen of night
Relieves his lustre with a milder light. George Stepney.Since the inculcating precept upon precept will prove tiresome, the poet must not encumber his poem with too much business; but sometimes relieve the subject with a moral reflection. Joseph Addison, Essay on the Georgicks.
Parallels, or like relations, alternately relieve each other; when neither will pass asunder, yet are they plausible together. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.
From thy growing store,
Now lend assistance, and relieve the poor;
A pittance of thy land will set him free. Dryden.Honest soldier, who hath relieved you?
—— Bernado has my place, give you good night. William Shakespeare.Relieve the centries that have watch’d all night. Dryden.
ChatGPT
relieve
To relieve means to alleviate, reduce or remove pain, distress, pressure, or any discomforting condition. It can also refer to the act of replacing someone temporarily from their duties or responsibilities.
Webster Dictionary
Relieveverb
to lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise
Relieveverb
to cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast
Relieveverb
to raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of
Relieveverb
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
Relieveverb
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
Relieveverb
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
Relieveverb
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
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Relieve
rē-lēv′, v.t. to remove from that which weighs down or depresses: to lessen: to ease: to help: to release: to support: to mitigate: to raise the siege of: (art) to set off by contrast: (law) to redress.—adj. Reliev′able.—n. Reliev′er, one who, or that which, relieves: (slang) a garment kept for being lent out.—adj. Reliev′ing, serving to relieve: (naut.) a temporary tackle attached to the tiller of a vessel in a storm.—Relieving arch, an arch in a wall to relieve the part below it from a superincumbent weight; Relieving officer, a salaried official who superintends the relief of the poor. [O. Fr. relever, to raise again—L. relevāre—re-, again, levāre, to raise—levis, light.]
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British National Corpus
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'relieve' in Verbs Frequency: #873
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of relieve in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of relieve in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of relieve in a Sentence
Who will relieve me of this Wuthering Height
The way I read what he said is that if I didn't get the nomination he would do it ... I will relieve him of that.
It's about trying to relieve the distress of individuals who are suffering because their desire is not at the level that it needs to be for them.
An important technique to stop the stress response is to ground yourself in the present moment.Stress is often triggered by experiences that are not occurring in the moment, often stemming from past or future events and mind wandering, as such, grounding oneself is an effective technique to relieve stress. There are many techniques to ground yourself in the present moment, and the more you practice them the easier and more natural it will become.
We want to help to relieve the problems in the region by making the existing facilities more manageable, it will take energy and money and manpower, but we can work toward a situation where there is more security in the region and we can avoid people boarding boats to Europe.
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- ulevitCzech
- aliviarSpanish
- keventää, vapauttaa, avustaa, [[nostaa]] [[pystyyn]], korostaa, [[murtaa]] [[saarto]], lievittää, tukea, helpottaaFinnish
- esautorare, lenire, liberarsi, patrocinare, risollevarsi, alleviare, rilevare, assistere, risollevare, mitigareItalian
- avløyseNorwegian Nynorsk
- avløse, avløyseNorwegian
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