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Word Meanings - RELIEVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

discharge, relieve, fr. L. relevare to lift up, raise, make light, relieve; pref. re- re- + levare to raise, fr. levis light. See 1. To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise. Piers Plowman. 2. To cause to seem to rise;

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discharge, relieve, fr. L. relevare to lift up, raise, make light, relieve; pref. re- re- + levare to raise, fr. levis light. See 1. To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise. Piers Plowman. 2. To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to Her tall figure relieved against the blue sky; seemed almost of supernatural height. Sir W. Scott. 3. To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of. The poet must . . . sometimes relieve the subject with a moral reflection. Addison. 4. To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or cruches; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to allevate; to- abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor. 5. To free, wholly or partly, from any burden, trial, evil, distress, or the like; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town. Now lend assistance and relieve the poor. Dryden. 6. To release from a post, station, or duty; to put another in place of, or to take the place of, in the bearing of any burden, or discharge of any duty. Who hath relieved you Shak. 7. To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right. Syn. -- To alleviate; assuage; succor; assist; aid; help; support; substain; ease; mitigate; lighten; diminish; remove; free; remedy; redress; indemnify.

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  • SECOND
    1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
  • ASSISTANTLY
    In a manner to give aid.
  • SUPPORTABLE
    Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • DIMINISH
    To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
  • SUCCOR
    tiono run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from He is able to succor them that are tempted. Heb. ii. 18. Syn. -- To aid; assist; relieve; deliver; help; comfort. (more
  • PREVENTATIVE
    That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
  • SUPPORTATION
    Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
  • COMFORTLESS
    Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
  • ASSISTANCE
    1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
  • ASSIST
    To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
  • ENCOURAGER
    One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
  • DISCONTINUE
    To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
  • COMFORTABLY
    In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.
  • DIMINISHER
    One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
  • SUPPORTFUL
    Abounding with support. Chapman.
  • LESSENER
    One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers .
  • EXHAUSTION
    An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
  • BENEFIT SOCIETY
    A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.
  • REDRESSIVE
    Tending to redress. Thomson.
  • IMPREVENTABLE
    Not preventable; invitable.
  • SUPREMITY
    Supremacy. Fuller.
  • REDIMINISH
    To diminish again.
  • EREMITE
    A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.
  • IMPREVENTABILITY
    The state or quality of being impreventable.
  • SLIGHTEN
    To slight. B. Jonson.
  • DISCOMFORTABLE
    1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n.
  • OVERTHWARTLY
    In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.

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