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  • 71relieve someone of — take (a burden or responsibility) from someone. → relieve …

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  • 72relieve — verb 1) this helps relieve pain Syn: alleviate, mitigate, assuage, ease, dull, reduce, lessen, diminish See note at alleviate Ant: aggravate 2) …

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  • 73relieve — verb 1) this helps relieve pain Syn: alleviate, mitigate, ease, counteract, dull, reduce 2) the helpers relieved us Syn: replace, take over from, stand in for, fill in for, substitu …

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  • 74relieve — re•lieve [[t]rɪˈliv[/t]] v. lieved, liev•ing 1) to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.); mitigate; allay 2) to free from anxiety, fear, pain, etc 3) to free from need or poverty 4) to bring effective aid to (a besieged town,… …

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  • 75relieve — /rəˈliv / (say ruh leev) verb (t) (relieved, relieving) 1. to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.). 2. to free from anxiety, fear, pain, etc. 3. to deliver from poverty, need, etc. 4. to bring efficient aid to (a besieged town …

  • 76relieve — [14] Relieve goes back via Old French relever to Latin relevāre ‘raise again’, a compound verb formed from the prefix re ‘again’ and levāre ‘raise’ (source of English elevate, levy, etc). Its metaphorical extension to ‘lighten, alleviate’ began… …

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  • 77Humedad de relieve — Relieve en el sudeste de Argelia. En climatología, la humedad de relieve consiste en un cambio en el relieve del terreno que obliga a una masa de aire húmedo a condensarse, precipitando parte del vapor de agua que lleva disuelto. Por este… …

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  • 78relieve — m Figura o forma que sobresale del plano …

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  • 79relieve oneself — verb To urinate and/or defecate …

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  • 80relieve — To free wholly or partly from pain or discomfort, either physical or mental. [through O. Fr. fr. L. re levo, to lift up, lighten] * * * re·lieve ri lēv vt, re·lieved; re·liev·ing 1) to bring about the removal or alleviation of (pain or… …

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