relieve

relieve is a 7-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
2. transitive verb. To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.
3. transitive verb. To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.
4. transitive verb. 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.
5. transitive verb. 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.
6. transitive verb. 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.
7. transitive verb. 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.
8. verb. provide physical relief, as from pain

   "This pill will relieve your headaches"

   Synonyms: alleviate, assuage, palliate

9. verb. provide relief for

   "remedy his illness"

   Synonyms: remedy

10. 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"

    Synonyms: lighten

11. verb. grant exemption or release to

    "Please excuse me from this class"

    Synonyms: excuse, exempt

12. verb. relieve oneself of troubling information

    Synonyms: unbosom

13. verb. lessen the intensity of or calm

    "The news eased my conscience"

    "still the fears"

    Synonyms: allay, ease, still

14. verb. take by stealing

    "The thief relieved me of $100"

15. verb. free from a burden, evil, or distress
16. verb. free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
17. verb. save from ruin, destruction, or harm

    Synonyms: salvage, salve, save

18. verb. grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to

    "She exempted me from the exam"

    Synonyms: exempt, free

Synonyms

alleviate, assuage, palliate, remedy, lighten, excuse, exempt, unbosom, allay, ease, still, salvage, salve, save, free

Common word forms

relieved, reliever, relieves, relieving, relievement

Words from these letters

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