relieve, alleviate, lighten, assuage, mitigate, allay mean to make something less grievous. relieve implies a lifting of enough of a burden to make it tolerable.

RELIEVE definition: 1. to make an unpleasant feeling, such as pain or worry, less strong: 2. to improve an unpleasant…. Learn more.

RELIEVE definition: to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.). See examples of relieve used in a sentence.

Synonyms: relieve, allay, alleviate, assuage, lighten2, mitigate, palliate These verbs mean to make something less severe or more bearable. To relieve is to make more endurable something causing …

23 hours ago · relieve (third-person singular simple present relieves, present participle relieving, simple past and past participle relieved) (transitive) To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental …

to ease, lessen, or make less unpleasant:[~ + object] Aspirin may relieve the pain. to free from anxiety, fear, pain, etc.:[~ + object] We were relieved by the good news.

RELIEVE meaning: 1 : to reduce or remove (something, such as pain or an unpleasant feeling); 2 : to make (a problem) less serious

relieve definition: provide a break or diversion from something unpleasant. Check meanings, examples, usage tips, pronunciation, domains, and related words. Discover expressions like "relieve stress", …

If you relieve someone, you take their place and continue to do the job or duty that they have been doing. At seven o'clock the night nurse came in to relieve her. [VERB noun]

Definition of relieve verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.