Uttal
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Definitioner
Verb
- To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or worried, to alleviate the distress of.
- To ease (someone, a part of the body etc.) or give relief from physical pain or discomfort.
- To alleviate (pain, distress, mental discomfort etc.).
- To provide comfort or assistance to (someone in need, especially in poverty).
- (obsolete) To lift up; to raise again.
- (now rare) To raise (someone) out of danger or from (a specified difficulty etc.).
- (legal) To free (someone) from debt or legal obligations; to give legal relief to.
- To bring military help to (a besieged town); to lift the seige on.
- To release (someone) from or of a difficulty, unwanted task, responsibility etc.
- (military, job) To free (someone) from their post, task etc. by taking their place.
- (now rare) To make (something) stand out; to make prominent, bring into relief.
- (reflexive) To go to the toilet; to defecate or urinate.
Exempel
- I was greatly relieved by the jury's verdict.
- Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
- This shall not relieve either Party of any obligations.
- The henna should be deeply dyed to make / The skin relieved appear more fairly fair [...].
- The night whose sable breast relieves the stark / White stars is no less lovely being dark
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