relieve
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< Middle English releven < Old French relever < Latin relevare (“‘to lift up, rause, make lightm lighten, relieve, alleviate, lessen, ease, comfort’”) < re (“‘again’”) + levare (“‘to lift’”); see levant, levity, etc.
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- Rhymes: -iːv
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to relieve (third-person singular simple present relieves, present participle relieving, simple past and past participle relieved)
- To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
- To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.
- To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- This shall not relieve either Party of any obligations.
- 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.
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- relieve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- relieve in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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relieve m. (plural relieves)
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- relief (protrusion)