verb
- Provide physical relief, as from pain.
- usage: "This pill will relieve your headaches"
- Free someone temporarily from his or her obligations.
- Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to.
- usage: "She exempted me from the exam"
- Lessen the intensity of or calm.
- usage: "The news eased my conscience"; "still the fears"
- Save from ruin, destruction, or harm.
- Relieve oneself of troubling information.
- Provide relief for.
- usage: "remedy his illness"
- Free from a burden, evil, or distress.
- synonyms: relieve
- Take by stealing.
- usage: "The thief relieved me of $100"
- synonyms: relieve
- Grant exemption or release to.
- usage: "Please excuse me from this class"
- 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"
adjective
- Of pain or sorrow. ( made easier to bear)
- synonyms: alleviated, eased
- Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary.
- usage: "the jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"
- synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, sticking, sticking out
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