relieve
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
provide physical relief, as from pain
This pill will relieve your headaches
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- easing derivation
- palliation derivation
- palliative derivation
- alleviation derivation
- alleviator derivation
- lenitive derivation
Sense 2 verb
free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- relief pitcher derivation
- reliever derivation
Sense 3 verb
grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
She exempted me from the exam
Types & categories
- derestrict hyponym
- deregulate hyponym
- dispense hyponym
- forgive hyponym
- spare hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
lessen the intensity of or calm
The news eased my conscience
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 5 verb
save from ruin, destruction, or harm
Types & categories
- rescue hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 6 verb
relieve oneself of troubling information
Types & categories
- confide hypernym
Sense 7 verb
provide relief for
remedy his illness
Types & categories
- treat hypernym
Related & opposite
- curative derivation
- practice of medicine domain topic
Sense 8 verb
free from a burden, evil, or distress
Types & categories
- rid hypernym
Sense 9 verb
take by stealing
The thief relieved me of $100
Types & categories
- take hypernym
Sense 10 verb
grant exemption or release to
Please excuse me from this class
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- excuse derivation
Sense 11 verb
alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive
relieve the pressure and the stress
Types & categories
- mitigate hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | easing |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | palliation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | palliative |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | alleviation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | alleviator |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | lenitive |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | improve |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | soothe |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | ease |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | relief pitcher |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | reliever |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | discharge |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | spell |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | enforce |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | exemption |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | derestrict |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | deregulate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | dispense |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | forgive |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | spare |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | easing |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | hush |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | allayer |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | relief |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | comfort |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | abreact |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | salvage |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | salvation |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | recoverer |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | salvager |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | salvage |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | rescue |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | confide |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | curative |
| 7 | domain topic | Related & opposite | practice of medicine |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | treat |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | rid |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | take |
| 10 | derivation | Related & opposite | excuse |
| 10 | hypernym | Types & categories | absolve |
| 10 | hyponym | Types & categories | frank |
| 11 | hypernym | Types & categories | mitigate |