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relieveverb to make more bearable or less severean ice pack will relieve the swelling allay, alleviate, assuage, ease, help, mitigate, mollify, palliate, soothe abate, lighten, moderate, soften, tempercure, heal, remedyamend, correct, emend, fix, mend, rectify, reform, repairameliorate, better, enhance, enrich, improve, meliorate, perfect, refine aggravate, exacerbate harm, hurt, impair, injureheighten, intensify, sharpen to set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbersthe bellhop relieved him of his luggage and led him to the elevator clear, disburden, disencumber, divest, free, rid, unburden discharge, emancipate, enfranchise, liberate, loose, loosen, manumit, release, spring, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetterbail (out), deliver, redeem, rescuedisengage, disentangle, extricate burden, encumber, saddle bog (down), fetter, hamper, restrain, shackle, subject, weigh down, weight (down) to take the place ofat daybreak a soldier arrived to relieve the one who had spent the night on guard duty cut out, displace, displant, replace, substitute, supersede, supplant preempt, usurp relieve, alleviate, lighten, assuage, mitigate, allay mean to make something less grievous.relieve implies a lifting of enough of a burden to make it tolerable.took an aspirin to relieve the pain alleviate implies temporary or partial lessening of pain or distress.the lotion alleviated the itching lighten implies reducing a burdensome or depressing weight.good news would lighten our worries assuage implies softening or sweetening what is harsh or disagreeable.ocean breezes assuaged the intense heat mitigate suggests a moderating or countering of the effect of something violent or painful.the need to mitigate barbaric laws allay implies an effective calming or soothing of fears or alarms.allayed their fears in the 14th century |