Definitions for relieve

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relieve re·lieve

Spelling: [ri-leev]

IPA: /rɪˈliv/

Relieve is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in relieve (eeeilrv).

Definitions for relieve

Idioms

1. to relieve oneself, to urinate or defecate.

verb (used with object)

1. to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
2. to free from anxiety, fear, pain, etc.
3. to free from need, poverty, etc.
4. to bring effective aid to (a besieged town, military position, etc.).
5. to ease (a person) of any burden, wrong, or oppression, as by legal means.
6. to reduce (a pressure, load, weight, etc., on a device or object under stress):
7. to make less tedious, unpleasant, or monotonous; break or vary the sameness of:
8. to bring into relief or prominence; heighten the effect of.
9. to release (one on duty) by coming as or providing a substitute or replacement.
10. Machinery. to free (a closed space, as a tank, boiler, etc.) of more than a desirable pressure or vacuum. to reduce (the pressure or vacuum in such a space) to a desirable level.
11. Baseball. to replace (a pitcher).

verb (used without object)

1. Baseball. to act as a relief pitcher:

Origin of relieve

1300-50; Middle English releven Middle French relever to raise Latin relevāre to reduce the load of, lighten, equivalent to re- re- + levāre to raise, derivative of lev

Examples for relieve

However, medications and therapies have been developed to relieve symptoms significantly.

But the bitterness which he put into it failed to relieve him of any of the bitterness that was in his own mind.

Women have become more professional and independent, so a lot of them are looking at role revisal to relieve similar tensions.

And if he turned his eyes to his own camp, he saw little to relieve his anxiety.

"It's over the pulling of Lucretia," a man said, simply to relieve his strained feelings.

It seemed to relieve the tension drawn by the other woman's torment.

“Seth kept the team together, but his constant need to relieve himself kept the team down,” says the announcer.

The cramping muscle should be carefully stretched and massaged to relieve pain.

But, to relieve your mind, nothing at all has really happened.

Adam Kawalek went from Los Angeles to Gaza to try to relieve the suffering of the sick and wounded there.