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relief
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Relief \Re*lief"\ (r?-l?f"), n. [OE. relef, F. relief, properly, a lifting up, a standing out. See Relieve , and cf. Basrelief , Rilievi .] The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything ...
Usage examples of relief.
The object sought in the administration of these is the evacuation of the accumulated fluids through the kidneys and bowels, thus giving relief.
I think almost any invalid who will visit your Hotel, and see for themselves the wonderful appliances that you have accumulated for the cure of disease, must soon become convinced that if there can be any hope of relief it can be secured there, if anywhere.
Sometimes the removal of the watery accumulation by tapping becomes necessary, in order to afford relief and give time for remedies to act.
The volume opens with the Normandy invasion, and Churchill recalls with evident admiration and relief the heroic landing of the redoubtable Allied armies as they effect the most remarkable amphibious operation in military history.
With a sigh of relief he pulled his foot out of it, and from it carefully poured into the small power-tank of the craft fully thirty pounds of allotropic iron!
He never stopped alluding to their fate, determined to undermine any prospect of relief.
The prospect of immediate relief and of future protection allured into its hospitable bosom many of those unhappy persons whom the neglect of the world would have abandoned to the miseries of want, of sickness, and of old age.
The great relief afforded by this operation so changed his aversion to being operated upon that on the next day he begged to have both legs amputated in the same manner, which was done, three days afterward, with the same favorable result.
But Jonson gave dramatic value to the masque, especially in his invention of the antimasque, a comedy or farcical element of relief, entrusted to professional players or dancers.
In fact we seldom get a case, in this line, that has not been the rounds of the home physicians before applying to us for relief and cure.
The king of France was no sooner apprized of the condition to which the generals Broglio and Belleisle were reduced, than he sent orders to mareshal Maillebois, who commanded his army on the Bhine, to march to their relief.
The pediment field from its architectonic conditions was never suited to decoration in relief.
It was a fore building with an archivolt of roses in base relief that curved over glistening white, stone steps, longer at the bottom than top.
Peterson arrived, she provided the first relief I had enjoyed from the guards in many months.
When they stepped back to compliment each other on their artistry, she breathed a sigh of relief.