relief
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7.0
- noun
- /rɪˈlif/
:
liberación
- Anybody got eyes on our relief fighters?
- relief force
- relief column
- relief of the siege
I was up at the FoB one heard about it and we sent down a relief force that went down and relieved the camp and help them clean up, get the dead bodies and stuff.
- I was up at the FoB one heard about it and we sent down a relief force that went down and relieved the camp and help them clean up, get the dead bodies and stuff.
Examples
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Find the relief column.
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They think there's a relief force coming up to support us.
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Tell me, Colonel, how did your relief come off last night?
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Get away quickly - before the relief comes -
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But relief for Sarajevo was only one part of the military problem.
Academic text (1993) -
A Japanese relief force was on the way to take back Biak.
Blog text (11) -
It's the relief force!
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A relief column going into Muc Wa would need artillery.
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On a day white with the intolerable desert sun, a battalion of the French Foreign Legion advanced across the Sahara to the relief of Fort Zinderneuf, whose messengers, riding with all speed, had brought word of a massed Arab attack.
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The soldiers finally celebrated when the relief force arrived to rescue them from the siege.
Synonyms
730
1.0
An act of saving someone or something from danger
279
1.8
An act of letting someone or something go free from being held
127
3.9
The act of setting people free from control or unfair treatment
Antonyms
139
6.8
A military attack that surrounds a place and stops supplies to make those inside give up
Idioms
Compounds
19
3.1
Help people and communities get after a disaster, such as food, shelter and medical care
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2
9.3
A sculpture with figures that stick out a little from a flat background
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A style of sculpture where shapes stand out a little from a flat background with no part fully separate
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A printing method where you press ink on raised parts of a block onto paper
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A raised image carved into a flat surface that stands out from the background
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Etymology
Relief comes from Latin relevare 'to lift up', and an army that brings relief is 'lifting' the siege off a town. That's why the freeing of a place is called its 'relief'.