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Relieved   /rɪlˈivd/  /rilˈivd/   Listen
Relieved

adjective
1.
(of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear.  Synonyms: alleviated, eased.
2.
Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary.  Synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, sticking, sticking out.  "Massive projected buttresses" , "His protruding ribs" , "A pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"


Relieve

verb
(past & past part. relieved; pres. part. relieving)
1.
Provide physical relief, as from pain.  Synonyms: alleviate, assuage, palliate.
2.
Free someone temporarily from his or her obligations.  Synonym: take over.
3.
Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to.  Synonyms: exempt, free.
4.
Lessen the intensity of or calm.  Synonyms: allay, ease, still.  "Still the fears"
5.
Save from ruin, destruction, or harm.  Synonyms: salvage, salve, save.
6.
Relieve oneself of troubling information.  Synonym: unbosom.
7.
Provide relief for.  Synonym: remedy.
8.
Free from a burden, evil, or distress.
9.
Take by stealing.
10.
Grant exemption or release to.  Synonyms: excuse, exempt, let off.
11.
Alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive.  Synonym: lighten.  "Lighten the burden of caring for her elderly parents"



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"Relieved" Quotes from Famous Books



... I don't know. I do not understand that sort of man at all. In fact, I feel rather relieved he is going to have nothing to do with ...
— A Woman Intervenes • Robert Barr
... torrent; they were nearly a mile beyond the centre of the town before they had fought across to the opposite side of the way. It was din and confusion indescribable; but in and beyond the town the road forks repeatedly, and this to some extent relieved the stress. ...
— The War of the Worlds • H. G. Wells
... church bells ringing during tempests; the Polish or Italian peasant is still persuaded to pay fees for sounding bells to keep off hailstorms; but the universal tendency favours more and more the use of the lightning-rod, and of the insurance offices where men can be relieved of the ruinous results of meteorological disturbances in accordance with the scientific laws of average, based upon the ascertained recurrence of storms. So, too, though many a poor seaman trusts to his charm that has been bathed in holy ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White
... we have a flying view of peasants in flight, with a description of five cities on fire not undeserving of its place in the play, immediately after the preceding sea-piece: but relieved by such wealth of pleasantry as marks the following jest, in which the most purblind eye will be the quickest to discover a touch of the ...
— A Study of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... "It is surprising how uncomfortable a person may be made by the obscure idea of something which he ought to have said or done, and which he cannot for the life of him remember. There is an effort of the lost idea to get into consciousness, which is relieved directly the ...
— A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga • Yogi Ramacharaka


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