relieve
Verbs
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(v) provide physical relief, as from pain
- This pill will relieve your headaches
- (v) free someone temporarily from his or her obligations take over,
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(v) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
- She exempted me from the exam
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(v) lessen the intensity of or calm
- The news eased my conscience
- still the fears
- (v) save from ruin, destruction, or harm salvage, salve, save,
- (v) relieve oneself of troubling information unbosom,
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(v) provide relief for
- remedy his illness
- (v) free from a burden, evil, or distress
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(v) take by stealing
- The thief relieved me of $100
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(v) grant exemption or release to
- Please excuse me from this class
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(v) 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