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relieve

English

  1. 🔊 provide physical relief, as from pain
    “This pill will relieve your headaches”
  2. 🔊 alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive
    “relieve the pressure and the stress”
  3. 🔊 take by stealing
    “The thief relieved me of $100”
  4. 🔊 free from a burden, evil, or distress
  5. 🔊 provide relief for
    “remedy his illness”
  6. 🔊 grant exemption or release to
    “Please excuse me from this class”
  7. 🔊 relieve oneself of troubling information
  8. 🔊 free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
  9. 🔊 grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
    “She exempted me from the exam”
  10. 🔊 lessen the intensity of or calm
    “The news eased my conscience”
  11. 🔊 save from ruin, destruction, or harm

Spanish

  1. 🔊 aliviar to relieve, alleviate, unburden

Similar words

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