Crossword clues for relieve
relieve
- Delivered shelled nuts, free from duty
- To ease, go through again putting in English
- Take over from
- Ease up
- Fill in for
- Take the place of
- Sub for
- Come out of the bullpen
- Take the place of, as a starting pitcher
- Take over responsibilities from
- Take over for a band member
- Serve a pitching role
- Replace on the mound
- Lessen, like pain
- Lessen, as pressure
- Free from pressure — ease
- Ease, as tension
- Ease, as pain
- Do a pitching job
- Do a pitching chore
- Break the sameness of
- Antonym of "aggravate"
- Go in for
- Take over for, as a pitcher
- Soothe, as one's anxieties
- Substitute for, as a pitcher
- Spell
- Private business, in slang
- Replace a starter
- Remove pressure
- Emulate Bob Stanley
- Lighten
- Let up on
- What firemen do on a diamond
- Ending in despair, two biblical characters help
- Substitute magistrate's covering Long Island
- Free to go through again, retaining key
- Free from pressure - ease
- Alleviate (pain)
- Remember to secure terminal in game console
- Release (from duty)
- Interrupt, always being taken aback about story
- In the end spouse will part to be again free
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Relieve \Re*lieve"\ (r?-l?v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relieved (-l?vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Relieving.] [OE. releven, F. relever to raise again, discharge, relieve, fr. L. relevare to lift up, raise, make light, relieve; pref. re- re- + levare to raise, fr. levis light. See Levity, and cf. Relevant, Relief.]
To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise. [Obs.]
--Piers Plowman.-
To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.
Her tall figure relieved against the blue sky; seemed almost of supernatural height.
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To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.
The poet must . . . sometimes relieve the subject with a moral reflection.
--Addison. 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.
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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.
Now lend assistance and relieve the poor.
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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.
Who hath relieved you?
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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.
Syn: To alleviate; assuage; succor; assist; aid; help; support; substain; ease; mitigate; lighten; diminish; remove; free; remedy; redress; indemnify.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "alleviate (pain, etc.), mitigate; afford comfort; allow respite; diminish the pressure of," also "give alms to, provide for;" also figuratively, "take heart, cheer up;" from Old French relever "to raise, relieve" (11c.) and directly from Latin relevare "to raise, alleviate, lift up, free from a burden," from re-, intensive prefix (see re-), + levare "to lift up, lighten," from levis "not heavy" (see lever).\n
\nThe notion is "to raise (someone) out of trouble." From c.1400 as "advance to the rescue in battle;" also "return from battle; recall (troops)." Meaning "release from duty" is from early 15c. Related: relieved; relieving.
Wiktionary
vb. To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or worried, to alleviate the distress of. (from 14th c.)
WordNet
v. provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches" [syn: alleviate, palliate, assuage]
free someone temporarily from his or her obligations [syn: take over]
grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam" [syn: exempt, free] [ant: enforce]
lessen the intensity of or calm; "The news eased my conscience"; "still the fears" [syn: still, allay, ease]
save from ruin, destruction, or harm [syn: salvage, salve, save]
relieve oneself of troubling information [syn: unbosom]
alleviate or remove; "relieve the pressure and the stress"
provide relief for; "remedy his illness" [syn: remedy]
free from a burden, evil, or distress
take by stealing; "The thief relieved me of $100"
grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class" [syn: excuse, let off, exempt]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "relieve".
As soon as they were relieved by the absence of the plebeian multitude, they encouraged each other, by interviews and messages, to accomplish their vow, and hasten their departure.
Ramage said, relieved that the Admiral had not added a stronger condemnation about him going aground, a factor which had seemed to absorb him, at least temporarily.
The allyl and sulphur in the bulbs, together with their mucilaginous parts, relieve the sore mucous membranes, and quicken perspiration, whilst other medicinal virtues are exercised at the same time on the animal economy.
The mamuti, anticipating the need for explanations to relieve the anxieties caused by this startling innovation, had mentally searched the theoretical construct of their metaphysical world for answers that would satisfy.
After relieving myself, anticipating the end of detachment and a plunge into ecstasy, I turned about only to find Xaefyer waiting for me just beyond the doorway.
The whole plant is sedative and antispasmodic, being of service by its preparations to relieve sleeplessness, nervous headache, and muscular rheumatism.
He was bewildered, for instance, by her new and to him quite inexplicable reluctance to respond to their familiar urinary tune by singing the antistrophe that signified assent, and crouching to relieve herself.
Sergeant Shankey was arriving at just that moment to relieve the misfortunate Turner.
After downing a cup of tepid coffee, he went to the OR to relieve her and do the delicate anastomoses of the vein grafts to the tiny coronary arteries.
He wanted to thump the annunciator panel with his fist and say all of the things that had come boiling up inside him-anything to relieve his frustration.
Court that the Interstate Commerce Commission may, in approving the acquisition by a railroad corporation of one State of railroad lines in another, relieve such corporation from being incorporated under the laws of the latter State.
Gervais Mechin, curate-in-charge of the Church of Saint-Pierre in the Market Place at Loudun, certify by these presents, signed by my hand, to relieve my conscience as to a certain report which is being spread abroad, that I had said in support of an accusation brought by Gilles Robert, archpriest, against Urbain Grandier, priest-in-charge of Saint-Pierre, that I had found the said Grandier lying with women and girls in the church of Saint Pierre, the doors being closed.
By its warming astringency, it exercises cordial properties which are most useful in arresting passive diarrhoea, and in relieving flatulent indigestion.
For those situations in which these measures prove inadequate, chemists have produced a stunning array of drugs to control the mind, such as those to enable people to relax, to become mentally aroused and alert, to sleep, to relieve anxiety, to overcome depression, to counteract attentional disorders, to improve the memory, and to experience euphoria, bliss, and even alleged mystical states of consciousness.
Sharp relieved Tom at the wheel, while the young inventor ate, and then, with the airship heading southwest, the speed was increased a trifle, the balloonist desiring to see what the motor could accomplish under a heavy load.