Definition of Relieve

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Relieve

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.

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 Quotations

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S. Grant

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.
Jose Marti

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
Russell Simmons

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Charles de Montesquieu

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Robert Burns

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
King Edward VIII

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
Walter Benjamin

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
Leon Kass

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.
Henry Reed

Relieve Translations

relieve in French is pallier
relieve in German is erleichtern, befreien, erleichtern
relieve in Italian is mitigare, agevolare
relieve in Latin is subvenio, relevo, lenio, subvenio
relieve in Spanish is aliviar, desahogar, deducir, relevar

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