释义 |
Verb: relieve ri'leev- Provide physical relief, as from pain
"This pill will relieve your headaches" - alleviate, palliate, assuage - Free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- take over - Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
- exempt, free - Lessen the intensity of or calm
- still, allay, ease - Save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- salvage, salve, save - Relieve oneself of troubling information
- unbosom - Provide relief for
- remedy - Free from a burden, evil, or distress
- Take by stealing
"The thief relieved me of $100" - Grant exemption or release to
- excuse, let off, exempt - Alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive
"relieve the pressure and the stress" - lighten
Derived forms: relieving, relieved, relieves See also: reliever Type of: absolve, ameliorate, amend, better, care for, comfort, confide, console, deliver, discharge, disembarrass, free, improve, justify, meliorate, mitigate, rescue, rid, solace, soothe, take, treat |