Meaning & use
relieve
To ease or lessen pain, discomfort, or a burden.
See it in a sentence
The medicine helped relieve her headache within about twenty minutes.
Volunteers arrived to relieve the exhausted rescue workers after a long night.
A note on using this word
Relieve someone of a duty or position is a polite, sometimes ironic, way of saying they are being removed from it.
Words with a similar meaning
alleviateease
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Words with an opposite meaning
aggravateworsen
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