relieve

Meanings

• provide physical relief, as from pain
  • "This pill will relieve your headaches"
• free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
• grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
• lessen the intensity of or calm
• save from ruin, destruction, or harm
• relieve oneself of troubling information
• provide relief for
• free from a burden, evil, or distress
• take by stealing
  • "The thief relieved me of $100"
• grant exemption or release to
• alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive
  • "relieve the pressure and the stress"

Synonyms

allay, alleviate, assuage, ease, excuse, exempt, free, let off, lighten, palliate, remedy, salvage, salve, save, still, take over, unbosom