to relieve

Examples

• All

• The state engineer was to provide baseline data and plans to relieve the harmful effects of hydraulic mining.

  Academic text (1994)

• Nurses have a pivotal role in educating patients and relieving their fears.

  Academic text (2007)

• Send someone back in a couple hours to relieve me.

  Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011)

• Joe will relieve me at 2:00.

  Five Came Back (1939)

• And the purpose was to demonstrate that he was gone, but also to relieve human suffering.

• That doesn't relieve you of responsibility for the lives of your passengers.

  Return from the River Kwai (1989)

• We contend that the community college is an important avenue to relieve the problem, but certainly not to solve it.

  Academic text (2012)

• County and city officials exerted all efforts to relieve the apprehension of the Negroes.

  Academic text (2013)

• The assaults on the wings were successful until a victorious Roman centre was able to rally and relieve their beleaguered comrades, winning the battle.

• Moreover, Roman commits suicide, thus relieving Andrea of the burden of freeing herself.

  Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

S

to save

vsto relieve

∞ 1.0

Rescue someone or something from danger

also includes bringing relief from danger not only protection

R

to release

vsto relieve

∞ 1.8

To let someone or something go free from being held

focuses on saving someone from ruin or harm rather than freeing from restraint

R

to rescue

vsto relieve

633 1.0

Save someone or something from danger

also covers saving from ruin and bringing relief from threat

S

to salvage

vsto relieve

109 4.4

To save something from damage or loss

focuses on saving from ruin or harm broadly not only recovering items

E

to extricate

vsto relieve

22 7.6

Free a person or thing from something that traps them

is about rescuing from ruin or harm rather than only removing constraints

S

to salve

vsto relieve

9.1

To stop a person or thing from being ruined

is identical in meaning but differs only as a different word form

D

to disencumber

vsto relieve

• Archaic

9.9

To free someone or something from a problem that makes things hard

focuses on saving from ruin or harm rather than only removing burdens

Antonyms

E

to endanger

124 3.7

To put someone or something in danger of harm

Phrasal Verbs

R

to relieve oneself

• Formal

11 7.5

To pee or poo, usually in a toilet

R

to relieve stress

5 3.5

To make you feel less tense or worried

R

to relieve nature

• Archaic

8.4

To go to the toilet to pee or poo

R

to relieve stress

• Specialized

5.8

To reduce forces inside a metal or glass, usually by heating it

R

to relieve muscle tension

3.7

To make muscles feel less tight or stiff

How Safe

to rescue

633 1.0

to relieve

34 2.0

to save

∞ 1.0

help

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology