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relieve English

Meaning relieve meaning

What does relieve mean?
Definitions in simple English

relieve Verb

— To make (something) stand out; to make prominent, bring into relief.

relieve

— verb provide physical relief, as from pain This pill will relieve your headaches — verb (= take over) free someone temporarily from his or her obligations — verb (= exempt) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to She exempted me from the exam — verb (= still, ease) lessen the intensity of or calm The news eased my conscience still the fears — verb relieve oneself of troubling information — verb (= remedy) provide relief for remedy his illness — verb (= save) save from ruin, destruction, or harm — verb take by stealing The thief relieved me of $100 — verb free from a burden, evil, or distress — verb (= lighten) 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 — verb (= excuse) grant exemption or release to Please excuse me from this class

Synonyms relieve synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as relieve?

relieve English » English

alleviate ease help allay mitigate lighten soothe save exempt assuage assist aid rescue relax palliate comfort remove facilitate excuse cure abate support release lessen succor substitute rid replace moderate free deliver take turns take over succour still spell satisfy salve salvage remit remedy reduce loosen let off heal dispel disburden clear calm unburden

Topics relieve topics

What do people use relieve to talk about?
Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Pain
States Quantity More

Decrease
Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Swell
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Uninterested, bored

  • What words refer to trying to find something that is interesting because you are bored?
    relieve the boredom
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Relief

Conjugation relieve conjugation

How do you conjugate relieve?

relieve · verb

Examples relieve examples

How do I use relieve in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This should relieve the pain.
The doctor gave him some drugs to relieve the pain.
If you stop and relax, this will relieve the tension and stress in your shoulders.
Let me relieve you of that case. It looks heavy.
Let me relieve you of that case.
Let me relieve you of your suitcase.
This medicine will relieve the pain.
This medicine helps relieve muscle pain.
This medicine will relieve your headache.
We must relieve the refugees of their suffering.
Technically, drugs that cause miosis can relieve the PNS effects of those causing mydriasis since sympathetic and parasympathetic stimulation tend to negate each others' effects.
When you're about to have exams, lifting weights really does relieve stress, and it's also good for your mind and body.
Many consider that euthanasia is a way to relieve a patient's sufferings.
Do you have anything to relieve a headache?
No words can relieve her deep sorrow.
Let me relieve you of your baggage.
Hydrotherapy is the use of water to relieve pain and cure illnesses.
Tom was viciously bashed and doctors had to put him into an induced coma to relieve the swelling on his brain.
Will you relieve me while I go downstairs for a minute?
What can we do to relieve the monotony?
Acupuncture can help relieve migraines.

Movie subtitles

There. That should relieve the pressure.
I just wanted to relieve your mind.
Well, I've ordered the release of Jim Smith. And I'm sorry, Captain Swanson, but I must relieve you of your command.
Let's relieve the men on the floor.
And then put him to knead the dough for a week without any relieve.
I think I can relieve your mind.
Patience is a game one only plays out of boredom which condition of mine it does nothing to relieve.
TIME TO RELIEVE THE KID, MINNESOTA.
I was at the wheel waiting' for Hennessy to relieve me.
Maybe one of us should had better try to relieve him at the oars.
He thought it'd be nice to relieve me in the kitchen so I'd have time with my guests.
This tooth I applied it to relieve the pain.
At least bathe his eyes or relieve his tummy with a little oil.
In that case, I'll relieve you of it.
Now Clara, my dear, I am come here, as you know, To relieve you all the trouble I can.
To relieve you of all of your cares.
You relieve my anxiety.
Raise enough dust to make them think half the British army's coming to relieve us, hurry.
I'll relieve you of that, Sergeant.
I came here because I wanted to, to prevent your getting Hoffner and all you can do in return is to commit ordinary murder to relieve your sense of frustration.
Dr. Sexton, the fact that my brother and sister and I have opened our home to convalescent patients doesn't relieve us of all responsibility for what occurs in it.
And so since the quickest way to relieve fear is to share the cause of it with someone else, please forgive me if I attempt to find out just what it is that your music case contains.
Who do you relieve?
I was sent here to relieve the misery, and I see nothing but glitter, luxury and immorality!
You can't relieve it like that.
I've got to get back and relieve him.
I think I can relieve your mind. It wasn't your fault at all.
I just wanted to relieve your mind, sir.
I tell you, she'll go insane unless I relieve her obsession by letting her tell everything she knows.
It may relieve his particularly nasty mind.
We'll relieve you in an hour, OK?
It'll relieve you of a responsibility you don't like.
But I have always sought to use that skill in the service of man, to relieve his pain.
Should one of us go down and relieve Paddy?

News and current affairs

But for this to be tolerable, the US needs to relieve China of existing risks.
An old and sick man who was to die a few months later, he acted with a sense of urgency to reach a deal that would relieve his inexperienced son of the burden of struggling for the recovery of the Golan Heights.
Because these funds are not issued or controlled by any member country or local government, eurozone members and Chinese local governments cannot relieve their debt problems through devaluation.
This has created a degree of dependency that should be redressed, if only to relieve the Americans of their burden and give Europe the political influence to match its economic clout.
This may relieve some pressure, but it only shifts the problem from the ECB bailout fund to the community of states.
Before doing anything else, we must relieve some of the balance-sheet pressures - on sovereigns, households, and banks - that risk smothering the recovery.
It is also important to relieve pressure on household and banks.
Core countries, meanwhile, argue that they can do little to strengthen aggregate demand and relieve pressure on their partners, even as the periphery's agony is dragging the core into recession, owing to its dependence on peripheral export markets.
Yet the Red Crescent and other relief agencies have been unable to relieve Falluja's civilian population.
Psychiatry's success - like that of all medical specialties - should be judged by its ability to relieve human suffering, regardless of disagreements about causes.
Now, there are many ways to relieve excess demand for financial assets.
While such initiatives cannot solve the problem of inequality, they can help to relieve some of its most damaging effects.
Still, the IMF is right - on grounds of both fairness and efficiency - to raise the idea of temporary wealth taxes in advanced countries to relieve fiscal distress.
The European Central Bank managed to relieve an incipient credit crunch through its long-term refinancing operation (LTRO), which lent over a trillion euros to eurozone banks at one percent.
Financing from the IMF, the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and bilateral lenders, along with debt relief from official and commercial bank creditors, helped relieve the pressure.
I make these somewhat critical observations about China not with any sense of moral superiority or a wish to relieve myself of the responsibility to level the same critique at my own country's recent failures.
NEW DELHI - China has devised a novel strategy to relieve pressure on its overcrowded prisons: employ convicts as laborers on overseas projects in the developing world.
All kinds of people use drugs for all kinds of reasons: to relieve pain or experience pleasure, to escape reality or enhance their perception of it.
It also believed that the core countries would relieve the ECB burden of mounting bailout costs.
Thus, some of the investment spending currently planned at the national level could be financed via European borrowing to relieve national budgets.
The major stumbling block for the world in trying to relieve the suffering in Gaza is how to finesse the biggest bloc in the Palestinian Legislative Council, Ismael Hanieh's Islamist list of Reform and Change.

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