relieve
- sense 1: provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches"
- relieve alleviate palliate assuage
- better improve amend ameliorate meliorate
- sense 2: free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- take_over relieve
- sense 3: grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam"
- exempt relieve free
- sense 4: lessen the intensity of; calm; as of anxieties and fears
- still allay relieve ease
- comfort soothe console solace
- sense 5: save from ruin or destruction
- salvage salve relieve save
- rescue deliver
- save carry_through pull_through bring_through
- sense 6: relieve oneself of troubling information
- unbosom relieve
- confide
- disclose let_on bring_out reveal discover expose divulge impart break give_away let_out
- sense 7: alleviate or remove; "relieve the pressure and the stress"
- relieve
- sense 8: provide relief for; "remedy his illness"
- remedy relieve
- sense 9: free from a burden, evil, or distress
- relieve
- sense 10: take by stealing; "The thief relieved me of $100"
- relieve
- sense 11: grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class"
- excuse relieve let_off exempt
- absolve justify free
- forgive
- concede yield grant
- agree hold concur concord