relieve > define

verb

• Provide physical relief, as from pain.
  • usage: "This pill will relieve your headaches"
  • synonyms: alleviate, palliate, assuage
• Free someone temporarily from his or her obligations.
  • synonyms: take over
• Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to.
  • usage: "She exempted me from the exam"
  • synonyms: exempt, free
• Lessen the intensity of or calm.
  • usage: "The news eased my conscience"; "still the fears"
  • synonyms: still, allay, ease
• Save from ruin, destruction, or harm.
  • synonyms: salvage, salve, save
• Relieve oneself of troubling information.
  • synonyms: unbosom
• Provide relief for.
  • usage: "remedy his illness"
  • synonyms: remedy
• Free from a burden, evil, or distress.
• Take by stealing.
  • usage: "The thief relieved me of $100"
• Grant exemption or release to.
  • usage: "Please excuse me from this class"
  • synonyms: excuse, let off, exempt
• Alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive.
  • usage: "relieve the pressure and the stress"; "lighten the burden of caring for her elderly parents"
  • synonyms: lighten

• (v.t.) To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
• (v.t.) To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.t.) To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.