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Relieved

adjective

1.

(of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear. Synonyms: alleviated, eased.

2.

Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary. Synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, sticking, sticking out. "Massive projected buttresses" , "His protruding ribs" , "A pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"

Relieve

verb

(past & past part. relieved; pres. part. relieving)

1.

Provide physical relief, as from pain. Synonyms: alleviate, assuage, palliate.

2.

Free someone temporarily from his or her obligations. Synonym: take over.

3.

Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to. Synonyms: exempt, free.

4.

Lessen the intensity of or calm. Synonyms: allay, ease, still. "Still the fears"

5.

Save from ruin, destruction, or harm. Synonyms: salvage, salve, save.

6.

Relieve oneself of troubling information. Synonym: unbosom.

7.

Provide relief for. Synonym: remedy.

8.

Free from a burden, evil, or distress.

9.

Take by stealing.

10.

Grant exemption or release to. Synonyms: excuse, exempt, let off.

11.

Alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive. Synonym: lighten. "Lighten the burden of caring for her elderly parents"

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"Relieved" Quotes from Famous Books

... with tears which she could scarcely keep from falling—for the two ageing women looked somehow so forlorn in the bright sunshine on the threshold of all this strangeness. But after the briefest pause Miss Ethel relieved the situation by saying briskly: "So you have opened the windows. Now ...

— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose

... those ticklish quicksands, whose insecure foundations had just been so strikingly illustrated before us. Indeed, the slightest jar might precipitate another fall of snow, and bury the object of our solicitude five hundred feet deep in its bosom. The sagacity of Mr. Bonflon relieved us from our dilemma. He hoisted out the small car or tender, and, letting it down with great care and precision, safely accomplished the object. In the space of half an hour, De Aery, without a scratch, and, like a gallant Gaul, rather proud of his adventure than ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various

... horse; my only companion and friend, in that now awful solitude. I reached the mouth of the dingle; the sun was just sinking in the far west, behind me; the fields were flooded with his last gleams. How beautiful everything looked in the last gleams of the sun! I felt relieved for a moment; I was no longer in the horrid dingle; in another minute the sun was gone, and a big cloud occupied the place where he had been; in a little time it was almost as dark as it had previously been ...

— George Borrow - The Man and His Books • Edward Thomas

... Spanish history and literature; the Church and medicine had already, as possible careers, been abandoned, and on his return to England he made a half-hearted effort to take up law; still unsettled he again visited Portugal, and finally was relieved of pecuniary difficulties by the settlement of a pension on him by an old school friend, which he relinquished in 1807 on receiving a pension from Government; meanwhile had settled at Keswick, where he prosecuted with untiring energy the craft of authorship; "Joan ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... the morning. The tinkle of the bell outside brought her to the door, and her two goats came pattering in to be relieved of their creamy burden. Gretchen was fond of them; they needed no care at all. The moment she had milked them they went tinkling off to the ...

— The Goose Girl • Harold MacGrath

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