Relieve

[rɪ'liːv] or [rɪ'liv]

Definition

(verb.) provide physical relief, as from pain; 'This pill will relieve your headaches'.

(verb.) 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.) take by stealing; 'The thief relieved me of $100'.

(verb.) free from a burden, evil, or distress.

Editor: Lois--From WordNet

Definition

(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 raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.

(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 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 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.

Inputed by Cole

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Succor, aid, help, assist, comfort.[2]. Allay, mitigate, assuage, soothe, lessen, palliate, ease, remedy, cure, remove.[3]. Put in relief, set off by contrast.

Checker: Rosalind

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Help, succor,[See _ALLEVIATE]

Typist: Theodore

Definition

v.t. to remove from that which weighs down or depresses: to lessen: to ease: to help: to release: to support: to mitigate: to raise the siege of: (art) to set off by contrast: (law) to redress.—adj. Reliev′able.—n. Reliev′er one who or that which relieves: (slang) a garment kept for being lent out.—adj. Reliev′ing serving to relieve: (naut.) a temporary tackle attached to the tiller of a vessel in a storm.—Relieving arch an arch in a wall to relieve the part below it from a superincumbent weight; Relieving officer a salaried official who superintends the relief of the poor.

Edited by Daisy