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transitive verb. To cause a lessening or alleviation of.

transitive verb. To make less tedious, monotonous, or unpleasant.

transitive verb. To free from pain, anxiety, or distress.

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transitive verb. To furnish assistance or aid to.

transitive verb. To rescue from siege.

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transitive verb. To release (a person) from an obligation, restriction, or burden.

transitive verb. To free from a specified duty by providing or acting as a substitute.

transitive verb. To enter the game as a relief pitcher after (another pitcher).

transitive verb. To rob or deprive.

transitive verb. To make prominent or effective by contrast; set off.

idiom. (relieve (oneself)) To urinate or defecate.

To lift up; set up a second time; hence, to collect; assemble.

To remove, wholly or partially, as anything that depresses, weighs down, pains, oppresses, etc.; mitigate; alleviate; lessen.

To free, wholly or partly, from pain, grief, want, anxiety, trouble, encumbrance, or anything that is considered to be an evil; give ease, comfort, or consolation to; help; aid; support; succor: as, to relieve the poor and needy.

Specifically, to bring efficient help to (a besieged place); raise the siege of.

To release from a post, station, task, or duty by substituting another person or party; put another in the place of, or take the place of, in the performance of any duty, the bearing of any burden, or the like: as, to relieve a sentinel or guard.

To ease of any burden, wrong, or oppression by judicial or legislative interposition, by indemnification for losses, or the like; right.

To give assistance to; support.

To mitigate; lessen; soften.

To give relief or prominence to, literally or figuratively; hence, to give contrast to; heighten the effect or interest of, by contrast or variety.

Synonyms Mitigate. Assuage, etc. (see alleviate); diminish, lighten.

To rise; arise.

transitive verb. To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

transitive verb. To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.

transitive verb. To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.

transitive verb. 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

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. 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.

verb. free from a burden, evil, or distress

verb. save from ruin, destruction, or harm

verb. grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to

verb. lessen the intensity of or calm

verb. relieve oneself of troubling information

verb. provide physical relief, as from pain

verb. grant exemption or release to

verb. take by stealing

verb. provide relief for

verb. alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive

verb. free someone temporarily from his or her obligations

"Many moons ago, on the mainland of Europe, I first heard the phrase "relieve pressure by creating it where least expected"."