relieve
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Third-person singular |
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- If you relieve pain, pressure, sadness, difficulty, etc., you reduce it.
- These drugs are used to relieve pain.
- Adding new nurses will relieve pressure on the hospital.
- The new roads only relieved the traffic for a few months.
- If you relieve yourself, you urinate.
- He went behind a tree to relieve himself.
- If you relieve somebody, you release them from duty, often by taking their place.
- When I arrived at 11:00 to relieve the guard, he was asleep.
- After the failure, the manager was relieved of his duties.