Relieve: alternatives and connections

To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt…

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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

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To change or modify in any way for the better

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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.

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To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.

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To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.

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To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or…

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To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate.

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Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…

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To disprove or make void; to refute.

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To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

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To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or…

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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure…

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imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i.

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Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief.

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To assent to as true.

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Taken.

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To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.

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To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispens…

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Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.

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To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.

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A pigsty.

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To assent to as true.

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To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.

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A spelk, or splinter.

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Tending to alleviate.

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Tending to alleviate.

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One who, or that which, alleviates.

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One who, or that which, alleviates.

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Alleviative.

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Alleviative.

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One who administers comfort or consolation.

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One who administers comfort or consolation.

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Care, heed, or attention.

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Care, heed, or attention.

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of Ease

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of Ease

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Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.

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Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.

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The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which…

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The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which…

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The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.

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The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.

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The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.

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The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.

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To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

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To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.

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To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisf…

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Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.

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To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to ex…

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Cut off; set apart.

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Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…

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To descend; to light.

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Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.

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That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for t…

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The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.

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Hail!

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The herb sage, or salvia.

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Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still.

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To disclose freely; to reveal in confidence, as secrets; to confess; -- often used reflexively; as, to unbosom one's self.

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