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relieve
/ɹɪˈliv/
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What does relieve mean?
verb
- To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or worried, to alleviate the distress of.
- To ease (someone, a part of the body etc.) or give relief from physical pain or discomfort.
- To alleviate (pain, distress, mental discomfort etc.).
More meanings (10)
verb
- To provide comfort or assistance to (someone in need, especially in poverty).
- To free (someone) from debt or legal obligations; to give legal relief to.
- 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.
- To free (someone) from their post, task etc. by taking their place.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To ease one's own desire to orgasm, often through masturbation to orgasm.
- (obsolete) To lift up; to raise again.
- (archaic) To raise (someone) out of danger or from (a specified difficulty etc.).
- (archaic) To make (something) stand out; to make prominent, bring into relief.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɹɪˈliv/
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In the pages of books
See this word in context.
When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
“The way to relieve your mind is to speak to the merciful and Christian mistress who has always been kind to you.”
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The toil, like all farm toil, is monotonous, and here there are little machinery and few tools to relieve its burdensome drudgery.