relieve

Verbs

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

Synonyms

alleviate palliate assuage take over exempt free allay still ease salvage salve save unbosom remedy let off excuse lighten

Antonyms

enforce implement apply

Words of close approximity

relievo
relief
relievo
relieved relieve oneself reliever