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1. Provide physical relief, as from pain
   "This pill will relieve your headaches"
   - alleviate, palliate, assuage
    
2. Free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
   - take over
    
3. Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
   - exempt, free
    
4. Lessen the intensity of or calm
   - still, allay, ease
    
5. Save from ruin, destruction, or harm
   - salvage, salve, save
    
6. Relieve oneself of troubling information
   - unbosom
    
7. Provide relief for
   - remedy
    
8. Free from a burden, evil, or distress
    
9. Take by stealing
   "The thief relieved me of $100"
    
10. Grant exemption or release to
    - excuse, let off, exempt
     
11. Alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive
    "relieve the pressure and the stress"
    - lighten

Derived forms: relieved, relieves, relieving

See also: reliever

Type of: absolve, ameliorate, amend, better, care for, comfort, confide, console, deliver, discharge, disembarrass, free, improve, justify, meliorate, mitigate, rescue, rid, solace, soothe, take, treat