0 present participle of relieve
1 to make an unpleasant feeling, such as pain or worry, less strong:
2 to provide relief for a bad situation or for people in need:
3 polite word for urinate :
Rubbing dock leaves on nettle stings helps to relieve the pain.
The routine was the same every day, with nothing to relieve the monotony.
There must be some way you can relieve the pain.
They removed the blood clot in order to relieve the pressure on her brain.
Rather than simply closing the septal defect, relieving the pulmonary stenosis, and performing an atrial switch, univentricular repair was preferred in these patients.
However, along with this focus on the micro level consequences of unemployment, researchers have largely forgotten about the role of state intervention in relieving unemployment.
The first three months of 1842 alone saw them relieving over 10,000 casuals, at a cost of nearly £2,000.