| 单词 | relieve |
| 释义 | re·lieve transitive verb 1. < knowing the truth will relieve anxious parents > : give aid, help, or succor to : rescue, deliver < relieve a besieged city > < a society for relieving the poor > 2. a. < strenuous efforts to relieve the food shortage > < frequently smokes to relieve nervous tension > < no words can relieve her sorrow > b. < crooks … eager to relieve the Texas cowboys of their pay — E.V.Buckholder > 3. a. < asked to be relieved of command of the army > < he was relieved of further responsibility for the program > b. < sent to relieve the gate sentry > : succeed < tulips bloom … to be relieved by roses when their time is up — E.O.Hauser > < relieved the operator for lunch and a smoke > 4. 5. 6. < a zoning law cannot constitutionally relieve land … from lawful restrictions affecting its use, imposed by convenants — American Jurisprudence > 7. < brown hills relieved by patches of green > 8. a. < her tall figure relieved against the blue sky — Sir Walter Scott > b. 9. < relieve a lighthouse by ship > < relieve an arctic weather station > 10. a. b. c. 11. < children are likely to relieve themselves on any street — Time > intransitive verb 1. 2. 3. < a relieving clause > Synonyms: < particularly zealous in taking steps to control the fire and relieve the suffering it entailed — Donald Milner > < a sex offender, deeply guilty over his past acts and relieved by analysis of the neurotic demands that had prompted them — Walter Goodman > alleviate indicates a temporary lightening of pain, distress, or difficulty, and may contrast with cure or eliminate < no dentists to care for them; not even any oil of cloves to alleviate the ache — C.C.Furnas > < activation of the Parking Authority in order to help alleviate New York's chronic traffic problem — Current Biography > lighten may suggest a cheering, buoying up, or refreshing abatement of depression or oppression < forever grumblingly attempting to lighten their sufferings — Kenneth Roberts > < his experience in copyreading and criticizing other people's efforts at expression ought to lighten the task of the editor to whom he eventually submits something — R.L.Greene > assuage suggests a moderating of pain, vexation, or sorrow by soothing, softening, or mollifying < the fugitive breezes, the life-giving zephyrs that assuage the torment of the summer heat — Stuart Cloete > < grief that Professor Abbott did not live to enjoy the fame he had earned is assuaged by the knowledge that he survived to complete his great work — Godfrey Davies > mitigate also suggests moderating, by any means, or countering the force or intensity of something painful < mitigate the barbarity of criminal law — W.R.Inge > < group friction and conflict are generally mitigated when people realize their common interests — M.R.Cohen > < the torment of his thirst mitigated a trifle by a drenching in the brine — C.G.D.Roberts > allay applies to any effective calming, soothing, quieting, or pacifying < the approach of winter allayed the fear of Indian raids — G.R.Stewart > < the president, in a TV chat intended to allay the country's fears — W.L.Miller > < something must be done to allay growing public discontent and to still the disagreements — New Statesman & Nation > |
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