Relieve

Definition: Relieve

Relieve

Verb

1. Provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches".

2. Free someone temporarily from his or her obligations.

3. Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam".

4. Lessen the intensity of; calm; as of of anxieties and fears.

5. Save from ruin or destruction.

6. Relieve oneself of troubling information.

7. Alleviate or remove; "relieve the pressure and the stress".

8. Provide relief for.

9. Free from a burden, evil, or distress.

10. : take by stealing; "The thief relieved me of $100".

11. : grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "relieve" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Tips from 1870

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Synonyms: Relieve

Aid

Relieve, rescue; set up, set agoing, set on one's legs; bear through, pull through; give new life to, be the making of; reinforce, reenforce, recruit; set forward, put forward, push forward; give a lift, give a shove, give an impulse to; promote, further, forward, advance

Facility

Render easy; Adjective: facilitate, smooth, ease; popularize; lighten, lighten the labor; free, clear; disencumber, disembarrass, disentangle, disengage; deobstruct, unclog, extricate, unravel; untie the knot, cut the knot; disburden, unload, exonerate, emancipate, free from, deoppilate; humor; (aid); lubricate; relieve.

Improvement

Relieve, refresh, infuse new blood into, recruit.

Relief

Verb: relieve, ease, alleviate, mitigate, palliate, soothe; salve; soften, soften down; foment, stupe, poultice; assuage, allay.

Remedy

Verb: apply a remedy; Noun: doctor, dose, physic, nurse, minister to, attend, dress the wounds, plaster; drain; prevent; relieve; palliate; restore; drench with physic; bleed, cup, let blood; manicure.

Sculpture

High relief, low relief, bas relief; relief; relieve; bassorilievo, altorilievo, mezzorilievo; intaglio, anaglyph; medal, medallion; cameo.

Crosswords: Relieve

Spanish (relief, setoff).

You weren't supposed to relieve me. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Sam Hamm)

But that doesn't relieve you of your responsibility for this material (Animal House; writing credit: Harold Ramis; Douglas Kenney)

Leela, you may be a formidable do-er of the nasty, but I'm forced to relieve you of your post (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

Request permission to relieve bladder (The Right Stuff; writing credit: Philip Kaufman; Tom Wolfe)

Helps to relieve the mind, and it's good for us (Sexual Healing; performing artist: MARVIN GAYE)

Honey I know you'll be there to relieve me (Sexual Healing; performing artist: MARVIN GAYE)

It's hard to find relieve and people can be so cold (Crash and Burn; performing artist: Savage Garden)

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Books

• Back Pain: How to Relieve Low Back Pain and Sciatica (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• HOW TO RELIEVE LOWER BACK PAIN (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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At Port Said, Egypt, 26 June - 11 July 1898, while serving as flagship of Rear Admiral Manuel de la Camara's squadron, which had been sent to relieve the Philippines. Credit: NAVY.

Probably photographed at Port Said, Egypt, during her service with Admiral Camara's squadron, June-July 1898. This force, sent from Spain to relieve the Philippines, passed Port Said eastbound on 26 June 1898, and westbound on 11 July. Covadonga was requisitioned for naval service in 1898, and soon returned to merchant service. Built as the British Tainui, she was scrapped as Astoria in 1911. Credit: NAVY.

Messina, Sicily. American white flour to help relieve the people hardest hit by the war. Credit: Library of Congress.

No more men are needed for the watch on the Rhine, but 26,000 men are wanted to relieve the watch on the Rio Grande / Gordon Grant Capt. U.S.A. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

HRT and ERT relieve hot flashes and night sweats. (references)

In some cases, drug therapy may relieve some symptoms. (references)

Splints may relieve pressure on the muscles and nerves. (references)

Business

Some government-owned companies which are losing money are going through a restructuring process to relieve their companies of the burdens of excess labor. (references)

In the short term, electricity exports to neighboring countries are unlikely to relieve this pressure substantially-demand growth is slowing throughout the region. (references)

The Federal Government, seeking to relieve the flow of goods and attempting to expedite services at the primary gateways (ports, airports and major points of entry along the border) created the so called EADIS - Estação Aduaneira do Interior (Interior Customhouses) that offer clearance services for importation of goods, warehousing, unloading, container and cargo handling in general. (references)

Civil Liberties

Taiwan

Recent expansion projects sought to relieve overcrowded conditions. (references)

Pakistan

In November and December, the Government and the UNHCR opened several new camps to house the most recent arrivals from Afghanistan, to relieve overcrowding at New Jalozai, and to accommodate undocumented refugees from Quetta and Peshawar. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

Administrative procedures relieve the investor's need to contact local authorities directly. (references)

Human Rights

Panama

The release program helped to relieve pressure on the overcrowded prisons. (references)

Ukraine

This measure did relieve overcrowding to some extent; however, the prisons had begun to fill up again by year's end, and pretrial facilities remained overcrowded. (references)

Korea

The effect sometimes is to relieve the Government of the burden of proof in a court of law that any particular speech or action in fact threatens the nation's security. (references)

Political Economy

Iraq

The Government reportedly has conducted "prison cleansing" campaigns to kill inmates in order to relieve overcrowding in the prisons. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "relieve": relieve each other ♦ relieve nature ♦ relieve of ♦ relieve one's feelings ♦ relieve one's mind ♦ relieve oneself ♦ relieve smb. ♦ relieve smb.'s feelings ♦ relieve smb.'s mind ♦ relieve the bowels ♦ relieve the guard ♦ relieve the strain on. Additional references.

Albanian

zvogëloj (abate, belittle, curtail, decrease, diminish, lessen, make smaller, minimize, mitigate, qualify, rebate, reduce, relax, scale down, slacken, take away, take in, take up, understate), zbut (allay, amortise, amortize, appease, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, chasten, commute, daunt, disarm, ease, extenuate, malaxate, manage, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palatalize, palliate, propitiate, qualify, reclaim, relax, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, tame, temper, tenderize, tone down), vij në ndihmë, qetësoj (allay, appease, assuage, balsam, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, conciliate, cool down, ease, gentle, hush, lull, mollify, pacificate, pacify, palliate, placate, propitiate, quiet, quieten, reassure, salve, settle, soften, soothe, tranquilize, tranquillize), ngushëlloj (comfort, commiserate with, condole, console, solace), ndihmoj (administer, advance, aid, assist, avail, back, befriend, bestead, chip in, contribute, facilitate, further, give a hand, help, help out, lend a hand, make for, meet halfway, pander, promote, subserve, succor, succour, support, take effect, tide over), ndërroj (cast, change, commute, distort, dress, exchange, malt, proselytize, relay, remove, transfigure, veer), lehtësoj (allay, alleviate, assuage, attenuate, calm, dull, enable, extenuate, facilitate, lighten, mitigate, palliate, relax, release, shake, soften, solace, soothe), lëshoj (cede, concede, dart, depasture, discharge, ease, effuse, emit, exhale, fetch, fire, flop, get off, give, give off, give out, give rise to, heave, heave a sigh, issue, let, let fall, let go, let loose, let off, pay, project, radiate, send, set on, shed, shoot, sluice, throw down, touch off, trip, unbrace, unbridle, uncork, uncouple, unleash, unmuzzle, unrein, untuck, utter), i heq rrethimin, gjallëroj (animate, enliven, ensoul, exhilarate, illumine, inspirit, liven, liven up, move, pep, quicken, renew, revive, rouse, set about, smarten up, spirit, spiritualize, sting, stir, tense, vitalize, vivify, warm up), çliroj (affranchise, cast off, deliver, disembarrass, disengage, disentangle, disenthrall, emancipate, evolve, extricate, heal, liberate, lighten, ransom, release, rescue, rid, set at large, set free, set loose, unbend, unfetter, unpeg). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هدأ (allay, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, calm down, cool, die down, dust, ease, hush, keep quiet, lull, moderate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quench, quieten, rest, salve, settle, settle down, simmer, smooth, sober, soothe, stay, steady, still, subside, supple, sweeten, tranquillize), ‏نجد (line, pad, plateau, rescue, salvage, socle, upholster), ‏لطف (affableness, allay, alleviate, amenity, amiability, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, benignity, civility, courtesy, ease, extenuate, friendliness, geniality, gentleness, kindness, lighten, mildness, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, politeness, qualify, quell, relax, smooth, soften, softness, soothe, suavity, sweeten, temper, tone down, urbanity), ‏ساعد (aid, assist, bear smb. a hand, encourage, facilitate, forearm, help, lend, pitch, shoulder, support, take a hand), ‏خفف من رتابة شىء ما, ‏خفف (alleviate, attemper, attenuate, deaden, ease off, extenuate, gloss over the facts, lessen, mitigate, modify, muffle, palliate, qualify, relax, relent, remit, slack, slake, slim, solace, subdue, succor, succour, thin, water down), ‏خلص (clear, cleave, keep faith, manumit, mop up, redeem, rescue, true), ‏جسم (incarnate, mass, organism, project, reify), ‏أسعف (succor, succour), ‏أزال (abstract, assuage, ax, axe, bulldoze, clear, clear away, declassify, dismantle, dispel, eliminate, enucleate, eviscerate, excise, obliterate, preclude, put aside, remove, rest, retrench, rid, rub, rub out, settle, slip, smooth, stave off, suppress, take away), ‏أراح (ease, refresh), ‏رفع الحصار, ‏برز (accentuate, break out, bring out, bulge, come into view, display, emerge, excrete, feature, form, germinate, heighten, image, jut, outcrop, outdo, point, project, protrude, raise, shine, shoot, show up, spring, stand out, stick, stick out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

успокоявам (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, compose, conciliate, cool, ease, hush, lull, mitigate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quiet, quiet down, quieten, reassure, salve, settle, silence, sleek, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize, unbend), уволнявам (boot, cast, discard, discharge, dismiss, dispense, drop, fire, grass, lay off, muster out, release, remove, retire, sack, send away, separate, shelve, turn away), разтоварвам (detrain, detruck, disburden, discharge, disencumber, dump, offload, unlade, unload, unsaddle), разнообразявам (diversify, interleave, intersperse, pepper, season, variegate, vary), вдигам обсада (raise a siege), откроявам се (be outlined, show up, silhouette, stand out), облекчавам (allay, alleviate, ameliorate, appease, comfort, disburden, disembarrass, ease, facilitate, help, lighten, mitigate, palliate, redress, soothe, sweeten, unburden, unload), лишавам от ранг (strip), подпомагам (advantage, aid, back, boost, facilitate, forward, further, get along, help, help on, help up, nurse, patronize, promote, prosper, set forward, subserve, succor, succour, support), изобразявам в релеф, изпъквам (beetle, bulge, come across, excel, get out of ruck, jut out, project, protrude, show up, stand out, stand up against, tell). (various references)

Chinese 

解除 (remove). (various references)

Czech

zmírnit (allay, alleviate, break, cushion, deaden, defuse, dilute, ease, extenuate, loosen, mitigate, palliate, remit, slacken, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, temper, tone down, understate), zbavit (acquit, avoid, deliver, deprive, divest, release, rid), vystřídat (supersede), utišit (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, ease, hush, pacify, quiet down, quieten, rest, silence, sooth, stay, tranquillize), ulehèit (ease, facilitate, lighten, unburden), pomoci (give a hand, hand out, help, help smb. down from, lend a hand, serve, stead, to help), přispìt (assist, chip in, contribute, oblige, redound, succor, succour), osvobodit (affranchise, deliver, discharge, dispense, enfranchise, free, liberate, manumit, set free). (various references)

Danish

de sociale overfoersler omfatter alle de loebende overfoersler-i kontanter eller i naturalier-der praesteres til husholdninger ved en tredjemands mellemkomst(dvs.en enhed,som ikke er en husholdning),som tildeles personligt,og som har til formaal at daekke (equivalent counterpart provided by the beneficiary, in cash or in kind, of certain risks or needs, provided to households through the intervention of a third party(i.e.by a unit other than a household), social benefits include all current transfers, which are made to individuals and which are intended to relieve households of the financial burden created by the appearance or existence, without there being any simultaneous). (various references)

Dutch

sociale uitkeringen zijn alle inkomensoverdrachten in geld of in natura aan gezinshuishoudingen door tussenkomst van een derde(dat wil zeggen van een andere eenheid dan een gezinshuishouding),die persoonlijk worden toegekend en tot doel hebben de lasten t (equivalent counterpart provided by the beneficiary, in cash or in kind, of certain risks or needs, provided to households through the intervention of a third party(i.e.by a unit other than a household), social benefits include all current transfers, which are made to individuals and which are intended to relieve households of the financial burden created by the appearance or existence, without there being any simultaneous), ontspannen (relieve from load, unload), gloeien bij geringe spanning (stress relieve heat treatment). (various references)

Farsi 

فرونشاندن (Appease, Calm, Curb, Extinguish, Infix, Lull, Pacify, Quash, Quell, Quench, Remit, Repress, Sate, Slack, Soften, Stanch, Stifle, Suppress, Tranquilize), معاونت کردن , کمک کردن (Aid, Boost, Hand, Help, Redound), تغییرپست دادن , تسلی دادن (Cherish, Console, Solace), تخفیف دادن (Abate, Alight, Assuage, Bate, Discount, Extenuate, Lower, Mitigate), ریدن , داشتن (Bear, Own), برکنارکردن (Oust), برجسته ساختن , برجستگی (Boss, Eminence, Notability, Pone, Prominence, Snob, Swell, Thread). (various references)

Finnish

vapauttaa (deliver, exempt, free, liberate, release, rid, set free), lieventää (allay, mitigate, reduce, relax), laukaista (discharge, ease, fire, launch, relax), keventää (ease, lighten), helpottaa (ease, facilitate, make easier, soothe). (various references)

French

pallier. (various references)

German

erleichtern (alleviate, ease, facilitate, facilitates, lighten, make easier, to alleviate, to ease, to facilitate, to relieve, unburden), entlasten (disburden, discharge, disencumber, ease, exonerate, release, relieve the strain on, unburden), befreien (absolve, affranchise, deliver, disabuse, dispense, emancipate, excuse, exempt, exonerate, extricate, free, lib, liberate, loose, loosen, purge, release, rescue, rid, set free, to enfranchise, to extricate, to relieve, unbind, unclog, unfetter, unshackle). (various references)

Greek 

ξαλαφρώνω (disencumber, unburden), ανακουφίζω (allay, alleviate, comfort, disburden, ease, palliate, unburden). (various references)

Hebrew 

למלא מקום (fill in, replace, spell, sub, substitute), ל�"קל (ease, extenuate, facilitate, mitigate, moderate, palliate, remit, slight), ל�"פי�' (ease), ל�"ר�'יע (allay, appease, calm, disarm, lull, mollify, pacify, reassure, soothe, still). (various references)

Hungarian

segít (abet, accomodate, aid, assist, help, lean, minister, succor, succour, support, sustain, to aid, to assist, to avail, to back up, to bear a hand, to help, to lend a hand, to minister, to stead, to succour, to support), könnyít (ease, facilitate, to alleviate, to ease, to ease down, to relieve), enyhít (allay, alleviate, comfort, ease, extenuate, mitigate, moderate, palliate, soft pedal, soothe, to abate, to allay, to alleviate, to appease, to assuage, to blunt, to deaden, to dull, to extenuate, to mitigate, to mollify, to relax, to release, to salve, to slacken, to soften, to still, to water down). (various references)

Indonesian

mengurangi (abridge, attenuate, curtail, deaden, deduct, detract, diminish, substract), mengaplos, aplos (redeem, take turn). (various references)

Italian

mitigare (abate, allay, alleviate, assuage, attanuate, become mild, calm down, lessen, lighten, loosen, mince, mitigate, palliate, relax, soften, soothe). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

替わる (to relieve, to take the place of), 代る (to relieve, to take the place of). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くつう�'やわら�'る (to relieve a person's pain), しゅやくからおろす (to relieve someone of the leading role), かわりあう (to relieve each other, to take turns), かわる (to be different, to be exchanged, to be replaced, to be revised, to be substituted for, to be transformed, to change, to change places with, to move location, to relieve, to take the place of, to take turns, to vary), いりかわる (to change places, to relieve), いれかわる (to change places, to relieve one another), やわら�'る (to moderate, to relieve, to soften), よう�'たす (to do one's business, to go to the toilet, to relieve oneself). (various references)

Korean 

구호하십시�". (various references)

Manx

seyrey (absolution, absolve, acquit, acquittal, affranchise, affranchisement, clear, clear from guilt, deliver, discharge, disembarrass, disencumber; exploit; clearing, disengage, dismiss, dismissal, disoblige, dispensation; exploitation, ease, emancipate, emancipation, enfranchise, exempt, exemption, exonerate, exoneration, free, justification, justify, liberate, liberation, purge, release, riddance, vindication, vindication act of), cur cour da. (various references)

Pig Latin

elieveray.(various references)

Portuguese

render (command, pay, render, yield), substituir (displace, exist, relay, renew, replace, shift, stand in for, substitute, supersede, supplant, take the place of), socorrer (accomodate, help, rescue, succor, succour), salvar (deliver, keep, rescue, save), mitigar (alleviate, assuage, bate, blunt, lighten, mitigate, palliate, quench, salve, sate, slake, soften, soothe), libertar (affranchise, deliver, discharge, disembarrass, disengage, disentangle, disenthral, ease, emancipate, enfranchise, free, let go, liberate, loose, manumit, redeem, release, rid, unbind, unchain, unfetter, unshackle), desobrigar (acquit, disoblige, exonerate, free, release, unbind), consolar (comfort, console, solace), auxiliar (accessorial, accomodate, adjunct, adjuvant, aid, ancillary, assist, assistant, auxilary, avail, back, cad, candle-holder, favor, favour, friend, hand, handy man, help, helper, lend a hand, minister, ministerial, patronize, preventer, protect, second, secondary, subsidiary, succor, succour, support), atenuar (blunt, dilute, diminish, lessen, mitigate, modify, mutate, qualify, reduce, relax, shade, slake, soften, soft-pedal, weaken), assistir (abet, assist, attend, help, stand by, witness), aliviar (allay, alleviate, assuage, blunt, comfort, console, disburden, ease, lighten, palliate, redress, salve, still, unburden), ajudar (abet, accomodate, aid, assist, avail, back, befriend, benefit, encourage, further, help, lend a hand, minister, pilot, serve, subserve, succor, succour, support, to help), acalmar (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, calm down, cool, ease, hush, lay, lull, mollify, pacify, placate, quiet, resettle, salve, settle, simmer down, slow down, smooth, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), abrandar (appease, attemper, calm down, deaden, decelerate, dilute, diminish, ease, extenuate, fall, flatten, mellow, mitigate, moderate, modify, mutate, pass off, quiet, reduce, relax, relent, season, slacken, slake, soften, soothe, unbend, unbrace, voice). (various references)

Romanian

uşura (alleviate, appease, calm, disburden, ease, facilitate, lighten, pacify, palliate, relax, respite, solace, soothe, speed), scuti (absolve, disengage, dispense, excuse, exempt, forgive, free, privilege, release, remit, save, spare), scoate în relief (emphasize), schimba gardã, scãpa (acquit, break free, deliver, discharge, disembarrass, dodge, drop, escape, fail, filter, fly off, get free, get out of, jettison, leak, let slip, loose, loosen, Miss, obviate, omit, pass up, purge, put back, release, rescue, rid, save, slip), potoli (becalm, compromise, dulcify, dull, hush, lighten, lull, mollify, quench, quiet, reassure, slack, slake, smooth, smooth down, sober, solace, stay, still, subdue, suppress, sweeten, temper, tranquillize), mângâia (caress, chuck, chuckle, comfort, cosset, delight, fondle, pander to, Pat, pet, smooth, solace, soothe, stroke), despresura, degaja (clear, disengage, educe, emit, evolve, extricate, liberate, withdraw), da de pomanã (dole), consola (cheer, comfort, fix, solace, soothe), alina (abate, allay, alleviate, comfort, ease, lighten, lull, mitigate, palliate, set in a row, solace, soothe, stop, temper), ajuta (abet, accomodate, advantage, aid, answer, assist, avail, back up, befriend, benefit, carry, carry through, comfort, encourage, fillip, help, minister to, promote, prop, push, second, serve, succor, succour, support, sustain). (various references)

Russian 

облегчать (allay, alleviate, appease, ease, facilitate, lighten, make ~ easy, mitigate, palliate, release, unburden). (various references)

Scottish

faothaich (be relieved from), cobhair (aid, assist. See <A HREF="mf02.html#cabhair">cabhair</A>, assistance, help, succour), cabhair (aid, assist, assistance, help). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vršiti nuždu, smeniti (change, dismiss, replace), osloboditi (absolve, acquit, affranchise, deliver, disembarrass, disengage, exculpate, exempt, free, let loose, let off, liberate, make free, release, rid, set free, unbind, unleash, unloose, unyoke, vindicate), oslabiti (become weak, debilitate, devitalize, enervate, enfeeble, go to the dogs, lose weight, relax, unfix, weaken), olakšati (alleviate, extenuate, facilitate). (various references)

Spanish

relevar (take the place of), desahogar (lighten, vent), aliviar (allay, alleviate, assuage, attanuate, beguile, comfort, deaden, dull, ease, help, lessen, lighten, reduce, soothe, unburden). (various references)

Swedish

undsätta (succour), lindra (abate, alleviate, appease, assuage, ease, mitigate, palliate, physic, salve, soothe), avslöja (betray, come clean, debunk, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, lay bare, let on, let out, nail, open, reveal, spill out, tattle, unclose, uncover, unfold, unmask, unveil), avlösa (replace). (various references)

Turkish

renk katmak (adorn, color, colour, embellish), rahatlatmak (comfort, de-stress, disburden, disembarrass, ease, facilitate, lighten, relax, relieve one's mind, salve, straighten smb. out, thaw, thaw out, unbend, unbrace, unburden), kurtarmak (absolve, bail, bail out, bring off, bring through, clean up, clear, deliver, disabuse, disabuse of, disembarrass, disembody, disengage, extricate, free, get smb. out of a jam, help, keep from, liberate, pull through, recover, redeem, rescue, retrieve, retrieve from, rid, salvage, salve, save, set free, tear away, unfetter, worry smb. out of smth.), avutmak (cheer, cheer up, comfort, console, delude, distract, solace), belirginleştirmek (concretize, crystallize, set off, signalize), dikkat çekmesini sağlamak (lionize, make a lion of, throw into relief), dindirmek (abate, alleviate, assuage, attemper, ease, kill, quench, quiet, quieten, salve, soothe, stop, suppress), hafifletmek (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attenuate, commute, deaden, de-escalate, ease, emasculate, extenuate, facilitate, lighten, mitigate, moderate, modify, palliate, qualify, remit, soft pedal, subdue, water, weaken), çare bulmak (cope, find a remedy, find a way, find the means, obviate, remedy), kabartma yapmak (boss, emboss, engrave, etch), yardım yapmak, nöbeti devralmak, sadaka vermek, teselli vermek, torna etmek, içini rahatlatmak (reprieve). (various references)

Ukrainian

різноманітити (diversify, enliven, freak, intersperse, vary), заспокоювати (appease, assuage, assure, becalm, calm, comfort, conciliate, cool down, ease, lull, mollify, plaster, propitiate, quell, quiet, quieten, salve, satisfy, smooth, soften, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), полегшувати (alleviate, appease, ease, exonerate, facilitate, lighten, mitigate, sugar coat, unload), подавати допомогу (administer, administrate, aid, render service, succor, succour). (various references)

adleviabant, adleviaretur, adleviata, exceperint, exceperunt, excepi, excepistis, excepit, excepta, exceptis, excepto, exceptoria, exceptus, excipe, excipere, excipiens, excipientes, excipies, excipiet, excipite, lenio, leva, levabantur, levabat, levabis, levabit, levabitur, levabo, levabunt, levans, levansque, levant, levantem, levantes, levare, levarent, levaret, levassent, levasset, levasti, levate, levatis, levatisque, levato, levaveris, levaverit, levavero, levaverunt, levavi, levavit, levavitque, levem, levemus, levigabis, levigandum, levigatis, levites, levo, refocilabatur, refocilandam, refocilandum, refocilarent, refocilati, refocilatus, refocilavit, releva, relevare, relevatus, relevet, relevetur, relevo, submiserit, submiserunt, submisit, submisso, submissoque, submittebant, submittentes, submitti, submittit, submittite, subvenio. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "relieve": relieved, relievedly, reliever, relievers, relieves. (additional references)

Words containing "relieve": unrelieved, unrelievedly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Relieve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: kraljeva, recieve, releave, releefe, relef, releif, releive, reliev, relife, reliven, Reljef, repleve, rerieve, resieve, retieve, rlief, Ryleev. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: eelier, eviler, levier, liever, releve, relive, revile, veiler.

-2 letters: eerie, elver, ervil, levee, lever, lieve, liver, livre, reeve, reive, revel, viler.

-3 letters: ever, evil, leer, lier, lire, live, reel, riel, rile, rive, veer, veil, vier, vile, virl.

-4 letters: eel, ere, eve, ire, lee, lei, lev, lie, ree, rei, rev, vee, vie.

-5 letters: el, er, li.

+1 letter: believer, relieved, reliever, relieves, reveille.

+2 letters: believers, delivered, deliverer, eversible, redeliver, reflexive, relievers, replevied, replevies, reveilles, revelries.

+3 letters: bedriveled, deliverers, deliveries, desilvered, heavenlier, interleave, receivable, redelivers, redelivery, reflective, reflexives, relievable, relievedly, replevined, resilvered, reversible, revertible, reviewable, revilement, silverweed, televiewer, unbeliever, unrelieved.

+4 letters: bedrivelled, deliverable, deliverance, deliverymen, disbeliever, interleaved, interleaves, irreflexive, irrelevance, misbeliever, nonbeliever, perceivable, predelivery, premedieval, preventible, receivables, receptively, recessively, redelivered, reflexively, relevancies, repleviable, retentively, retrievable, reverential, reversibles, revilements, secretively, serviceable, servileness, severalties, shirtsleeve, silverweeds, televiewers, theirselves, unbelievers, undelivered, velocimeter.