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Relief   /rɪlˈif/  /rilˈif/   Listen
Relief

noun
1.
The feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced.  Synonyms: alleviation, assuagement.
2.
The condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress).  Synonym: ease.  "Getting it off his conscience gave him some ease"
3.
(law) redress awarded by a court.
4.
Someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult).  Synonyms: backup, backup man, fill-in, reliever, stand-in, substitute.  "We need extra employees for summer fill-ins"
5.
Assistance in time of difficulty.  Synonyms: ministration, succor, succour.
6.
A pause for relaxation.  Synonyms: respite, rest, rest period.
7.
A change for the better.  Synonyms: easing, moderation.
8.
Aid for the aged or indigent or handicapped.
9.
The act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance).  Synonyms: alleviation, easement, easing.
10.
Sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background.  Synonyms: embossment, relievo, rilievo, sculptural relief.
11.
The act of freeing a city or town that has been besieged.



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"Relief" Quotes from Famous Books



... hand if a color which refuses to recede—like yellow for example—is used where depth is wanted, the receding plane and the approaching color neutralize one another, resulting in an effect of flatness not intended. The tyro should not complicate his problem by combining color with high relief modelling, bringing inevitably in the element of light and shade. He should leave that for older hands and concern himself rather with flat or nearly flat surfaces, using his modelling much as the worker in cloisonne uses his little rims ...
— Architecture and Democracy • Claude Fayette Bragdon
... death came as a happy relief to the miserable man, who had begged the sheriff to add greater weights so as to expedite the end. This is the only case on record of a man having been "pressed to death" in New England for refusing to plead, or for any other offense. ...
— My Native Land • James Cox
... ivy was not complete. Here and there the corner of a battlement stood out in sharp relief, as though it had pushed back the struggling plant, and, by main force, had risen above the leaves, while on one side a round tower lifted itself as if to show that a stone tower could stand for six hundred years ...
— Irish Wonders • D. R. McAnally, Jr.
... who instantly takes over whatsoever he has in charge, and with it receives a slip of paper from the clerk, who is always at hand for the purpose; and so the new man sets off and runs his three miles. At the next station he finds his relief ready in like manner; and so the post proceeds, with a change at every three miles. And in this way the Emperor, who has an immense number of these runners, receives despatches with news from places ten days' journey off in one day ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... straightway into the thicket to make preparations for moving—to saddle our horses and take off their mufflings, which by this time had nearly blinded them. Poor brutes! they seemed to know that relief was ...
— The Scalp Hunters • Mayne Reid


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