Relieve
verb
To make an unpleasant feeling or physical condition less severe.
This medicine will relieve your headache.
Often appears as...
- relieve pain
- relieve stress
verb
To take over a job or responsibility from someone.
My coworker relieved me from work after her lunch break.
Often appears as...
- relieve duty
- relieve position
verb
To make a wall, especially a load-bearing one, more solid, usually by adding material.
The architect relieved the wall with steel reinforcement.
Often appears as...
- relieve wall
- relieve structure
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To make a tedious situation or task more enjoyable.
His sense of humor relieved the monotony of the long journey.
Often appears as...
- relieve monotony
- relieve boredom
verb
To make an unpleasant feeling or physical condition less severe.
This medicine will relieve your headache.
Often appears as...
- relieve pain
- relieve stress
verb
To take over a job or responsibility from someone.
My coworker relieved me from work after her lunch break.
Often appears as...
- relieve duty
- relieve position
verb
To make a wall, especially a load-bearing one, more solid, usually by adding material.
The architect relieved the wall with steel reinforcement.
Often appears as...
- relieve wall
- relieve structure
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To make a tedious situation or task more enjoyable.
His sense of humor relieved the monotony of the long journey.
Often appears as...
- relieve monotony
- relieve boredom
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Physical and Emotional
The word 'relieve' can refer to easing both physical pain and emotional stress.
A good massage can relieve sore muscles and also relieve stress.
Pro Tip 2/2Temporary Relief
'Relieve' often suggests a partial or temporary reduction of discomfort, not a permanent solution.
Chewing gum can relieve the pressure in your ears during takeoff.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical and Emotional
The word 'relieve' can refer to easing both physical pain and emotional stress.
A good massage can relieve sore muscles and also relieve stress.
Pro Tip 2/2Temporary Relief
'Relieve' often suggests a partial or temporary reduction of discomfort, not a permanent solution.
Chewing gum can relieve the pressure in your ears during takeoff.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical and Emotional
The word 'relieve' can refer to easing both physical pain and emotional stress.
A good massage can relieve sore muscles and also relieve stress.
Pro Tip 2/2Temporary Relief
'Relieve' often suggests a partial or temporary reduction of discomfort, not a permanent solution.
Chewing gum can relieve the pressure in your ears during takeoff.
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Rethinking infidelity...
He needs to become, for a while, the protector of the boundaries. It's his responsibility to bring it up, because if he thinks about it, he can relieve Heather from the obsession, and from having to make sure that the affair isn't forgotten, and that in itself begins to restore trust.
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Why do cats act so...
In the wild, cats needed sharp claws for climbing, hunting, and self-defense. Sharpening their claws on nearby surfaces kept them conditioned and ready, helped stretch their back and leg muscles, and relieve some stress, too. So, it's not that Grizmo hates your couch,
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Why do people get so...
Writing down your worries can also help. This strategy may give you a chance to reevaluate a stressful experience, freeing up working memory. And if you have the chance, physical activity, like a brisk walk, deepens breathing and helps relieve muscle tension,
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How to use rhetoric to...
but it may be irrational and unpredictable. It can just as easily rally people for peace as incite them to war. Most advertising, from beauty products that promise to relieve our physical insecurities to cars that make us feel powerful, relies on pathos.
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How equal do we want the...
It relieved more pain from people, because expectations do change our physiology. And of course, we all know that in sports, if you are a fan of a particular team, you can't help but see the game develop from the perspective of your team.
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The Intense 8 Hour Hunt...
And at the moment of death, he shared its pain. He rubs its saliva into his own legs to relieve the agony of his burning muscles. And he gives thanks for the life he has taken, so that he may sustain the lives of his family,
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Two Baby Tamarin Monkeys...
the first milk that primates produce is known as colostrum a nutrient-rich cocktail packed full of immunity boosting antibodies which it's almost impossible to replicate dom is relieved that at least this part of the process
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The Celebrity Panda PIPE...
the fur boudoir rhubarb i've said too much it's a private matter there are a few more pandas in the public eye around here that would relieve the pressure on me a bit the wider bear community has its fair
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Can Magnets Scramble...
let's give it a go all right no now I'm slightly relieved my date is still intact but in the interest of science I'm gonna give the magnet a bit of a boost by wrapping a coil of wire around
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“Boom Boom”, “Life is...
be relieved as long as you need helpers caught me
Video examples
Rethinking infidelity...
He needs to become, for a while, the protector of the boundaries. It's his responsibility to bring it up, because if he thinks about it, he can relieve Heather from the obsession, and from having to make sure that the affair isn't forgotten, and that in itself begins to restore trust.
Video examples
Why do cats act so...
In the wild, cats needed sharp claws for climbing, hunting, and self-defense. Sharpening their claws on nearby surfaces kept them conditioned and ready, helped stretch their back and leg muscles, and relieve some stress, too. So, it's not that Grizmo hates your couch,
Video examples
Why do people get so...
Writing down your worries can also help. This strategy may give you a chance to reevaluate a stressful experience, freeing up working memory. And if you have the chance, physical activity, like a brisk walk, deepens breathing and helps relieve muscle tension,
Video examples
How to use rhetoric to...
but it may be irrational and unpredictable. It can just as easily rally people for peace as incite them to war. Most advertising, from beauty products that promise to relieve our physical insecurities to cars that make us feel powerful, relies on pathos.
Video examples
How equal do we want the...
It relieved more pain from people, because expectations do change our physiology. And of course, we all know that in sports, if you are a fan of a particular team, you can't help but see the game develop from the perspective of your team.
Video examples
The Intense 8 Hour Hunt...
And at the moment of death, he shared its pain. He rubs its saliva into his own legs to relieve the agony of his burning muscles. And he gives thanks for the life he has taken, so that he may sustain the lives of his family,
Video examples
Two Baby Tamarin Monkeys...
the first milk that primates produce is known as colostrum a nutrient-rich cocktail packed full of immunity boosting antibodies which it's almost impossible to replicate dom is relieved that at least this part of the process
Video examples
The Celebrity Panda PIPE...
the fur boudoir rhubarb i've said too much it's a private matter there are a few more pandas in the public eye around here that would relieve the pressure on me a bit the wider bear community has its fair
Video examples
Can Magnets Scramble...
let's give it a go all right no now I'm slightly relieved my date is still intact but in the interest of science I'm gonna give the magnet a bit of a boost by wrapping a coil of wire around
Video examples
“Boom Boom”, “Life is...
be relieved as long as you need helpers caught me
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Quote examples
Rory Freedman
American Author
My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recall there was finally a time where I swore, and neither one of them was correcting me, and I felt so relieved. I thought, finally; I can finally be myself and not get yelled at.
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Ziggy Marley
Jamaican Musician
Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.
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Tea Leoni
American Actress
It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
American Journalist
Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.
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Jon Huntsman, Sr.
American Philanthropist
We're in business to relieve human suffering, to help feed the poor, to provide education and culture - but above all else, we're concerned with the relief of human suffering.
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Holt McCallany
American Actor
The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.
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Russell Simmons
American Businessman
I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
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Christy Turlington
American Model
Imagine the possibilities if humanity banded together before disaster struck to relieve everyday suffering worldwide.
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Joseph Butler
English Clergyman
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
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Jose Marti
Cuban Activist
One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.
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Rory Freedman
American Author
My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recall there was finally a time where I swore, and neither one of them was correcting me, and I felt so relieved. I thought, finally; I can finally be myself and not get yelled at.
Quote examples
Ziggy Marley
Jamaican Musician
Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.
Quote examples
Tea Leoni
American Actress
It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
American Journalist
Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.
Quote examples
Jon Huntsman, Sr.
American Philanthropist
We're in business to relieve human suffering, to help feed the poor, to provide education and culture - but above all else, we're concerned with the relief of human suffering.
Quote examples
Holt McCallany
American Actor
The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.
Quote examples
Russell Simmons
American Businessman
I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
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Christy Turlington
American Model
Imagine the possibilities if humanity banded together before disaster struck to relieve everyday suffering worldwide.
Quote examples
Joseph Butler
English Clergyman
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
Quote examples
Jose Marti
Cuban Activist
One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.
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