relieve
Verb
Verb Forms: relieved, relieving, relieves
- To lessen, ease, or free from pain or discomfort.
- provide physical relief, as from pain
- "This pill will relieve your headaches"
- free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
- lessen the intensity of or calm
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- relieve oneself of troubling information
- provide relief for
- free from a burden, evil, or distress
- take by stealing
- "The thief relieved me of $100"
- grant exemption or release to
- alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive
- "relieve the pressure and the stress"
- To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or worried, to alleviate the distress of.
- To ease (someone, a part of the body etc.) or give relief from physical pain or discomfort.
- To alleviate (pain, distress, mental discomfort etc.).
- To provide comfort or assistance to (someone in need, especially in poverty).
- To lift up; to raise again.
- To raise (someone) out of danger or from (a specified difficulty etc.).
- To free (someone) from debt or legal obligations; to give legal relief to.
- To bring military help to (a besieged town); to lift the siege on.
- To release (someone) from or of a difficulty, unwanted task, responsibility etc.
- To free (someone) from their post, task etc. by taking their place.
- To make (something) stand out; to make prominent, bring into relief.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To ease one's own desire to orgasm, often through masturbation to orgasm.
Examples
- A well-placed word can RELIEVE the pressure of a crowded Scrabble board.
- I was greatly relieved by the jury's verdict.
- This shall not relieve either Party of any obligations.
Origin / Etymology
From Late Middle English releven, from Old French relever, specifically from the conjugated forms such as (jeo) relieve (“I lift up”), and its source, Latin relevo (“to lift up, lighten, relieve, alleviate”), combined form of re- (“back”) + levo (“to lift”). Doublet of relevate. Compare levant, levity, etc.
Synonyms
allay, alleviate, assuage, ease, excuse, exempt, free, let off, lighten, palliate, remedy, salvage, salve, save, still, take over, unbosom, bash one out, bate, beat it, beat off, boo-boo, break the seal, cack, choke a darkie, crank one out, crap, defecate, do a number two, do one's ease, do one's easement, drite, drop a bomb, drop a chalupa, drop a deuce, drop anchor, drop the kids off at the pool, dung, ease oneself, exrementize, fap, feceate, frig, have a shit, hit the head, jack it, jack off, jerk it, jerk off, jork it, knock one out, liss, mastuprate, masturbate, micturate, move one's bowels, pass water, pee, piddle, pinch a loaf, pinch one off, piss, play pocket pool, play with oneself, pleasure oneself, poo, pooh, poop, rub one out, self-abuse, self-pollute, service oneself, sharn, shart, shiss, shit, shite, skeet, slash, stool, take a crap, take a dump, take a leak, take a piss, take a shit, take a whiz, take the Browns to the Super Bowl, toss, toss off, touch oneself, uncoil, urinate, void, void one's bowels, wank, wank off, wee, wee wee, whack off, whiz, widdle
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
relieve: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrelieve: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
relieve: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary