Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
- 2transitive verb
To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.
- 3transitive verb
To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.
- 4transitive 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.
- 5transitive 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.
- 6transitive 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.
- 7transitive 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.
- 8verb
provide physical relief, as from pain
"This pill will relieve your headaches"
- 9verb
provide relief for
"remedy his illness"
Synonyms
- 10verb
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"
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- 11verb
grant exemption or release to
"Please excuse me from this class"
- 12verb
relieve oneself of troubling information
Synonyms
- 13verb
lessen the intensity of or calm
"The news eased my conscience"
"still the fears"
- 14verb
take by stealing
"The thief relieved me of $100"
- 15verb
free from a burden, evil, or distress
- 16verb
free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- 17verb
save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- 18verb
grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
"She exempted me from the exam"
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