Relieves
[ri'li:vz]
Examples
- However, I'm glad the thing is cleared up: it relieves one's mind to have things cleared up. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The pin-setter relieves the boy of the major and most time-consuming part of this work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The return of peace, indeed, seldom relieves them from the greater part of the taxes imposed during the war. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The old lady relieves the high-flown benevolence of her husband with a good deal of spirit. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- This co-operation in no sense relieves the authors of responsibility as to any of the views or statements of their own that the book contains. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Do let me cry a few minutes; it relieves me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- My best girl, he had said, relieves me from these phantasies. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It relieves her to feel that there is another way of being charitable, practicable for other characters, and under other circumstances. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Typist: Shirley